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Back Issues of Shelterforce

Nos. 35-73 are $3 each, 74-144 are $5 each, 145-current are $7.50 each.

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#152 - Winter 2007 Community Development at 40: Leadership in the 21st Century, New Definitions of Community Development, Uniting Fair Housing and Community Development, New Leaders on the Gulf Coast, Trends in Rural CDCs, Ethnic CDCs, When Supportive Housing Isn't...
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#151 - Fall 2007 Housing and Presidential Politics: Housing the Working Poor, Credit Where Credit is Due, The Supreme Denial of Integration. Plus: Struggling in the Crescent City, Charting a New Course in Portland, Keeping Kukui Gardens, The Case for Plan B, Getting it Done...
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#150 - Summer 2007 Subprime Slide: Losing Ground to Abusive Lenders, The Trauma of Foreclosure, A Strategy for Responding to the Crisis, Legal Strategies in Ohio to Fight Abusive Lending. Also: D.C. Community Benefits Agreement, ACORN and Attorneygate, Shrinking Cities, Building a Better Housing Policy...
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#149 - Spring 2007 Bringing Shared-Equity Homeownership to Scale: Manufactured-Housing Cooperatives, Municipally Supported Community Land Trusts, Low-Income Tenants Buy Their Homes in D.C., A Winning Campaign for Inclusionary Zoning, Asset-Building Comes of Age, Toward a Common Agenda. Also: Barack Obama's Third Way, Is Housing First Too Much of a Good Thing? ...
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#148 - Winter 2006 NYC Tenants Face Loss of Middle-Income Units, The Case for a Right to Housing, Why CDCs Should Advocate for a Right to Hosuing, A Merger of Two Cincinnati CDCs, Gentrifiers Move Onto Social Services' Turf, Universal Design and Visitability in Affordable Housing, Making Tax Credits Work for the Disabled, Midterm Election Analysis, 2006 Housing and Community Development Victories...
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#147 - Fall 2006 Katrina Evacuees in Limbo in Texas, Privileged Places, Nonprofits Prevent Foreclosure, Can Progressives Deliver in '06, Labor and Community Think Collectively, the Prevailing Wage Debate, Rx for Tenants, Healthy Foods and Strong Communities, Concentrated Poverty Moves Around
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#146 - Summer 2006 Budgeting for Democracy in Lawrence, Mass., Canada and Chicago, Planning Beyond the Project, Building Trust Through Planning in New York's Chinatown, Managing the Affordable Housing Message, The Politics of Poverty, Say NO to Wal-Bank, Evictions After Katrina, Jane Jacobs' Radical Legacy
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#145 - Spring 2006 After Katrina: A Political Disaster, Organizing Networks Step Up, Intermediaries Head for the Gulf Coast, Planning New Orleans, the Media on Poverty. Also: Grassroots Organizing and Design in Oakland, Frank Wilkinson's Legacy
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#144 - Nov/Dec 2005 Community Benefits Agreements, ACORN Partners With a Private Developer, CDC Networks, President Bush and the Mansion Subsidy, the 30th Anniversary of Shelterforce: Looking Back, Looking Forward
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#143 - Sept/Oct 2005 Community Entrepreneurship for CDCs, A Nonprofit Takes a Business Approach, Brokerages for the Rest of Us, Collective vs. Market Housing, After Katrina, the Legacy of Racism and Poverty in New Orleans
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#142 - July/Aug 2005 Land Trust in Mississippi, Gentrification in New York, Limited-Equity Co-ops, Reality Check for Housing Advocates
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#141 - May/Jun 2005 CANDO's Rise and Fall, Cleveland's Housing Court, Hope Community's Listening Project, Employer-Assisted Housing
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#140 - Mar/Apr 2005 Rebuilding Cities: Network Organizing in Lawrence, Mass., Housiing Strategies for Market Revival, Thompson v. HUD, Healthy Housing Advocacy
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#139 - Jan/Feb 2005 Housing and Service Providers for Ex-offenders * Predatory Lending * Community-University Partnerships
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#138 - Nov/Dec 2004 PUBLIC HOUSING: The "Community" in Chicago's Public Housing * Resident-led Redevelopment in Pittsburgh's Hill District * The Social Loss of Urban Renewal * The Reality of Deconcentration * Post-Election Commentary
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#137 - Sep/Oct 2004 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Dilemma * Developing A Workforce * Urban Neglect: George W. Bush and the Cities * CDC's Build Power * Hip-Hop Politics
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#136 - Jul/Aug 2004 McKinney-Vento Homeless Act * Jobs-Housing Mismatch * Section 8 Homeownership Program * CDC's and Community Mediation
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#135 - May/Jun 2004 Arena Politics in Newark, NJ * HUD's House of Cards: Will Martinez's accomplishments help him win in the Florida Senate? * KWRU's Fight for Economic Rights * The Housing Bubble: Time Bomb in Low-Income Communities? * Reagan's Legacy: Homelessness in America
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#134 - Mar/Apr 2004 Designing Beauty in Affordable Housing * New Jersey's Mount Laurel Decision Under Attack * CDCs Having Their Say in the Planning of Newark, NJ * Social Injustice in Chicago: The Battle Over the Heavily Subsidized Luxury Development -- Presidential Towers
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#133 - Jan/Feb 2004 Community Development Through the Prism of Newark, NJs CDCs * New Role of CDCs in Gentrifying Neighborhoods * How SEA Corp Crafted a Community of Practice * Affordability Name Game
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#132 - Nov/Dec 2003 Women at Work: An Economic Justice Story * Strategic Restructuring as a Safety Net for CDCs * Building Assets To Make Homeownership a Reality for the Disabled * How Chicago Block Clubs Are Fighting Crime
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#131 - Sep/Oct 2003 Zoning for Housing Justice: Inclusionary Zoning At Work * Freddie and Fannie Under Fire * What CDCs Can Do In Weak Market Communities * Cuyahoga Falls v. Buckeye: The Fight for Low-Income Housing * Essay on Progressive Politics and Organizing
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#130 - Jul/Aug 2003 Enterprising Nonprofits: Profile of Housing Works, Inc. * City Soil: Reusing Urban Brownfields as Affordable Housing Sites * Beyond the Housing Headlines: State of the Nation's Housing 2003 * Black Organizer Blues
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#129 - May/Jun 2003 The CDC School of Hard Knocks * CDC Mergers * Can this Collaboration Be Saved? * Gentrification Roundtable * Enraging the Right
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#128 - Mar/Apr 2003 Riding the Rails for Social Justice * No Progess Without Protest * Left Behind: Housing Instability and School Performance * From the Social Welfare State to the Social Investment State * Work, Wages, and Income Still Matter * A City Seen: Cleveland Community Development in Photos * Putting Idle Capital to Work * Helping the Mayor Get Your Way
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#127 - Jan/Feb 2003 Has Homeownership Been Oversold? * Section 8 Is Broken * Building Wealth * Tenants Win a War, But Lose a Battle
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#125 - Sep/Oct 2002 Almost Home: Foster care youth learn to live independently * The Conundrum of Community Development * Going Subprime: Fannie and Freddie enter the subprime market
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#124 - Jul/Aug 2002 Direct Action for Housing * The Power of the Community Press * Millennial Housing Commission Report * Tenant Blacklisting * Livable and Affordable * Fighting Predatory Financial Services
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#123 - May/Jun 2002 Cincinnati: A Year Later No Wiser * Cincinnati commentary * Built to Last: Better-Managed CDCs * It Takes a CDC * How the Living Wage Movement Prevailed
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#121 - Jan/Feb 2002 Target: Problem Properties * Affordable Forever: Community Land Trusts * So You Want to Be a Developer... * Relying on Ourselves: Rural Community Development
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#120 - Nov/Dec 2001 The Future of Affordability * Smart Growth * Insuring Reinvestment * Labor Goes to Bat for Housing in San Jose
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#119 - Sep/Oct 2001 Special Issue: Evaluating Community Organizations * A Note From The Guest Editors * A Look In The Mirror * Getting At Impact * Evaluation From All Sides: A Roundtable * Evaluation Resources * Shifting The Balance of Power: Participatory Evaluation
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#118 - Jul/Aug 2001 Special Issue: Back To School * Community and Schools * Learning to Work Together * District-Wide Reform * Improving Facilities
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#117 - May/Jun 2001 Managing Gentrification: Tools and Timing * Our Housing Markets Don't Work * Rent Control: Where Is It Now?
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#116 - Mar/Apr 2001 Steering and Segregation * New Urbanism * The Bush Administration * Low Income Housing Institute * Fenway CDC
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#115 - Jan/Feb 2001 Special Issue: Faith-Based Initiatives: From The Pulpit To The Pavement * Faith and Justice * Black Churches, Community, and Development * Not By Faith Alone: How and When to Start a Faith-Based CDC * Building Democracy * Catholic Campaign for Human Development * (UN)Charitable Choice
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#114 - Nov/Dec 2000 Special Issue: Leadership * Stakeholder Community Development * DSNI's Homegrown Leader * Creating Enduring Organizations * Parents As Leaders * Holding Leaders Accountable
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#113 - Sep/Oct 2000 "Flipping" Scams Bring Down Neighborhoods * Devolution Hits Canadian Housing * Hearts On Fire: How To Avoid Burnout * Using GIS For Community Empowerment
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#111 - May/Jun 2000 Renewing Bonds: Labor and the Housing Movement * Stamford Organizing Project * Globalization and Neighborhood Development * Congressional Report Card
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#110 - Mar/Apr 2000 25th Anniversary Essays * And the World Keeps Changing * Shifting Fortunes * Twin Pursuits * We Build the Road * Time to Remove The Rose-Colored Glasses * Building Assets to Fight Poverty * Building Power
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#109 - Jan/Feb 2000 Arts Build Community * Predatory Lending * Housing the Elderly * New Codes for Old Buildings
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#108 - Nov/Dec 1999 CRA: Responses to Financial Modernization * Resident Planning * Town & Gown: Community Research
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#107 - Sep/Oct 1999 Teaching Community Entrepreneurship * Cardell Cooper * Community Groups and Energy Deregulation * Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation
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#106 - Jul/Aug 1999 Outlawing Homelessness * IDA's * Funding Organizing
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#101 - Sep/Oct 1998 Special Issue: Organizing Today * United Power for Action and Justice * Twin Cities CDC * Community-Labor Coalitions * Fair Housing Drives New Party Growth in Little Rock * Organizing's Past, Present and Future * Pablo Eisenberg Interview * Organizing, Power & Public Policy & Training Directory
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96-current are $5 each.

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Research Reports

Shared Equity Homeownership: The Changing Landscape of Resale-Restricted, Owner-Occupied Housing
By John Emmeus Davis
As the housing crisis worsens, putting the American Dream out of reach for millions, communities around the country are turning to shared equity homeownership – limited equity coops, community land trusts and inclusionary units – to redefine the housing ladder. This breakthrough study examines the benefits of these models within a sectoral framework; a third sector housing strategy. Support for this study was provided by the Ford and Surdna foundations.
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Building A Better Urban Future: New Directions for Housing Policies in Weak Market Cities
By Alan Mallach
A policy paper for practitioners and policymakers investing housing resources in weak market cities. The project focuses on market-driven approaches, the integration of affordable and market-rate housing and the use of housing as a core element in both economic development and neighborhood revitalization strategies. The project is in collaboration with the Community Development Partnerships’ Network, LISC and the Enterprise Foundation.
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Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Redefining Community Development
By Winton Pitcoff
This Shelterforce special report takes a close look at comprehensive community initiatives, including those supported by the Annie E. Casey, Clark, Ford, and Surdna Foundations, and their role in empowering poor communities. The report examines how community groups work together toward the common purpose of changing the way their local systems (housing, schools, welfare) work and the way community groups work within those systems.
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There are three easy ways to order items from this page:

2) Call us at 973-763-0333 to pay with a credit card (Visa, MC, Amex).

3) Send a list of the desired publications, your address and phone number, and a check, money order, or credit card information (Visa, MC, Amex) to:

The National Housing Institute
111 Dunnell Road
Maplewood, NJ 07040

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