Next City: The three housing stories to watch in 2019
Investment in opportunity zones, the privatization of public housing, and a possible end to single-family zoning on the radar.
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Comment on CFPB RFI on data collection
December 21, 2018 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 1700 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20552 Request for Information Regarding Bureau Data Collections Docket ID CFPB-2018-0031 To whom it may concern: This letter is in response to the request issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“the CFPB”) and listed as Docket No. CFPB-2018-0031 in the Federal
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Alyssa Wiltse
Senior Marketing Manager awiltse@ncrc.org 202-393-8309 Alyssa Wiltse is the Senior Marketing Manager for NCRC. She was previously NCRC’s Senior Media Manager. While she has always been passionate about social justice issues, Alyssa previously focused this passion on the international environmental sector, working for seven years as a journalist covering the global freshwater and sanitation crisis
The Atlantic: Perhaps the most effective way to fight racism
The Atlantic, December 12, 2019: Perhaps the Most Effective Way to Fight Racism In White Right: Meeting With the Enemy, the filmmaker Deeyah Khan, a Muslim woman of color, recounts a television interview that she gave during the summer of 2016. “The fact of the matter is that the U.K. is never going to be
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The golden age of rich people not paying their taxes
The Atlantic, December 11, 2018:The Golden Age of Rich People Not Paying Their Taxes Rettig, a tax lawyer with decades of experience defending wealthy clients against the IRS, has been publicly noncommittal so far. Pressed by Democratic senators at his confirmation hearing, all he would say was that “one of [his] top priorities would be
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Curbed: Elizabeth Warren doubles down on affordable housing legislation
Curbed, December 11, 2018: Elizabeth Warren doubles down on affordable housing legislation Today, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) doubled down on her strategy to fix America’s housing crisis. Along with Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) and Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), she introduced the American Housing and Economic Mobility Act to the House, a companion to a Senate bill Warren
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NCRC supports House introduction of Sen. Warren’s affordable housing and home ownership bill
The bill, S. 3503, addresses discriminatory lending, affordable homeownership, modernization of the Community Reinvestment Act and relief for families still recovering from the Great Recession.
Politico: Trump expected to name Pence aide Calabria as top housing regulator
Mark Calabria is a bold pick for the position, and his nomination is sure to rattle housing advocates.
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The New York Times: What I see: Gloria Steinem, shoulder to shoulder with women of color
A cultural critic reflects on pictures of the feminist icon that show a rare moral courage.
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Slate: Minneapolis confronts its history of housing segregation
By doing away with single-family zoning, the city takes on high rent, long commutes, and racism in real estate in one fell swoop.
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The New York Times: How the cashless economy shuts out the poor
Late last month, Ritchie J. Torres, a popular city councilman from the Bronx, introduced a bill that would forbid certain businesses in New York from refusing to accept cash.
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Washington Post: Millennials aren’t breaking traditions. They’re just broke.
A research paper published last month by economists at the Federal Reserve comes to a different conclusion: Millennials aren’t choosing to break economic traditions. Instead, we’re just broke.
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Analysis of public comments on the Community Reinvestment Act
Banks want more certainty and easier exams, but points of consensus emerge.
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Huffington Post: Running for office is really hard if you’re not a millionaire
It’s not a coincidence that most people who are elected to public office are incredibly wealthy.
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Time: Affordable housing is disappearing. These mobile home residents are fighting to protect theirs
Since the 2008 financial crisis, and as an aging generation of mom-and-pop park owners cashes out, a new breed of investors bent on raising rents to increase returns has bought up a growing share of the market.