Category: Housing Justice

Community Identity Housing Justice

Meeting the Housing Needs of Native Communities

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American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities face distinct housing challenges, such as overcrowding, substandard housing on tribal lands, and more limited access to mortgage credit. According to a 2017 study by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), an estimated 68,000 new homes are needed to eliminate overcrowding and replace physically deficient housing. These issues are compounded by complex federal-tribal governance, insufficient funding, and varying needs across different tribal areas. Despite these hurdles, the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act’s (NAHASDA) programs have made significant progress in addressing housing gaps, though challenges such as outdated funding levels and bureaucratic obstacles remain.…Continue readingMeeting the Housing Needs of Native Communities

Housing Justice

As ICE Tears Immigrant Families Apart, California Moves to Keep Them Housed

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State Senator Maria Elena Durazo stands alongside immigrant rights and tenants’ rights advocates to introduce Senate Bill 1243, the Tenant Protections for Immigrant Families Act. SB 1243 creates an affirmative defense and a temporary stay on unlawful detainer actions for impacted tenants and families, whose household members have been abducted by federal immigration enforcement during this period of immense fear, loss, and turmoil.…Continue readingAs ICE Tears Immigrant Families Apart, California Moves to Keep Them Housed

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Mixed-status Families: Many Californians live in households with family members who have different citizenship or immigration statuses

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This article is originally published at: Mixed-status Families | California Immigrant Data Portal Many Californians live in households with family members who have different citizenship or immigration statuses. Mixed-status families, many…Continue readingMixed-status Families: Many Californians live in households with family members who have different citizenship or immigration statuses

Community Identity Housing Justice

Celebrating the breadth and diversity of California’s extensive cultural assets: Applications Due August 7, 2025

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Source: California Cultural Districts California is a land rich in resources. As the most populated state in the United States, California’s economy rivals that of most countries, the sixth largest…Continue readingCelebrating the breadth and diversity of California’s extensive cultural assets: Applications Due August 7, 2025

Housing Justice Indigenous Urban Planning

Equity and Urban Planning – Build institutional capacity and culture

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November 16, 2015 Cynthia Silva Parker Source: https://interactioninstitute.org/equity-and-urban-planning-build-institutional-capacity-and-culture/ This is the third of a four part series, sharing some of the lessons IISC and Horsley Witten Group learned in our efforts to support RhodeMap RI in…Continue readingEquity and Urban Planning – Build institutional capacity and culture

Housing Justice

Relief From the Heat: In Rapidly Warming Cities, Trees Can Save Lives

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Source: https://chesapeaketrees.net/2020/08/28/relief-from-the-heat-in-rapidly-warming-cities-trees-can-save-lives/ Research links increased heat vulnerability to unjust urban planning Story by Sadie E. Francis Melting ice caps, rising sea levels, increasingly tenacious hurricanes, and regular flooding have dominated…Continue readingRelief From the Heat: In Rapidly Warming Cities, Trees Can Save Lives

Ark Tech Housing Justice

Sustainable Standards: Pervious Cover Minimums and Incentives

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Source: https://sustainablecitycode.org/brief/pervious-cover-minimums-and-incentives-2/ Kerrigan Owens (author), Jonathan Rosenbloom & Christopher Duerksen (editors) INTRODUCTION This regulation provides local governments with the flexibility to either create incentives, set requirements, or do a combination…Continue readingSustainable Standards: Pervious Cover Minimums and Incentives

Housing Justice Indigenous Stewardship

Indigenous Voices and Stewardship in Urban Landscapes

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Webinar Date (Wednesday, 7/10/2024, 1 – 2:15pm EDT) Source: https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/indigenous-voices-and-stewardship-urban-landscapes It is a surprise for many to learn that 70-percent of American Indians and Alaska Natives live off reservation in urban settings.…Continue readingIndigenous Voices and Stewardship in Urban Landscapes

Housing Justice

ULI British Columbia Collaborates with Indigenous Populations to Overcome Housing Barriers

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By Erin Fowler, William Zeh Herbig September 27, 2023 Source: https://urbanland.uli.org/sustainability/uli-british-columbia-collaborates-with-indigenous-populations-to-overcome-housing-barriers As a result of discrimination, indigenous populations in British Columbia are facing inequitable access to stable housing. Barriers to housing have…Continue readingULI British Columbia Collaborates with Indigenous Populations to Overcome Housing Barriers

Housing Justice Urban Indian Crisis

Urban American Indians and AlaskaNatives ExperiencingHomelessness in California: Strategies for Addressing Housing Insecurities

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Source: https://ipr.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/NAH-Report-_-Tribal-MAT.pdf DECEMBER 2020 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This project was conducted as part of the California Opioid State Targeted Response (STR) programming to conduct a needs assessment of opioid use disorder treatment…Continue readingUrban American Indians and AlaskaNatives ExperiencingHomelessness in California: Strategies for Addressing Housing Insecurities

Housing Justice Urban Indian Crisis

Homeward Bound, where a person is treated “like a human being,” as a culturally specific shelter, it holds American Indian rituals

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Source: https://www.cbs58.com/news/how-one-minnesota-county-has-been-rapidly-housing-the-homeless-since-the-pandemic By: CNN Posted: Oct 16, 2022 4:17 PM CST By Katie Lobosco, CNN Photographs by Sarah Silbiger for CNN (CNN) — On a breezy morning in July, Fabian Jones…Continue readingHomeward Bound, where a person is treated “like a human being,” as a culturally specific shelter, it holds American Indian rituals

Communal Healing Housing Justice

Supportive Housing Sustains Native American Culture and Addresses Homelessness in Seattle, Washington

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Source: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr-edge-inpractice-041922.html In Seattle, Native Americans account for only 1 percent of the population but 15 percent of the total population of those experiencing homelessness and 32 percent of the…Continue readingSupportive Housing Sustains Native American Culture and Addresses Homelessness in Seattle, Washington

Housing Justice The Unseen Urban Indian Crisis

Housing for Urban Indigenous Peoples, Tribal Residents, and Tribal Nations

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Source: https://www.nlc.org/article/2022/11/29/housing-for-indigenous-peoples-tribal-nations/ NOVEMBER 29, 2022 by Samantha Steeves for the National League of Cities. *Note: There are many different naming conventions for Native American and Indigenous communities, who are in no…Continue readingHousing for Urban Indigenous Peoples, Tribal Residents, and Tribal Nations

Ark Tech Housing Justice

Orange County’s first modular wood constructed supportive housing development under construction

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Source: https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/housing/2021/09/01/casa-paloma-supportive-housing-midway-city-orange-county We see this as a template for tomorrow. Milo Peinemann, the CEO of American Family Housing, an affordable housing developer based in Midway City BY JOSEPH PIMENTEL ORANGE COUNTY PUBLISHED…Continue readingOrange County’s first modular wood constructed supportive housing development under construction

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