Watch out world, here she comes!
Ruth Barnett had the longest title of any employee at Piedmont Housing Alliance. That’s because it was almost impossible to list all the things she “took care of” for us. …
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Because America has the largest number of homeless women and children in the industrialized world.
A fellow board member on a local non-profit encouraged us to share the “why” of our board service in a compelling way. That idea inspires me to start a series…
Thoughtful Co-existence
In a recent story in the New York Times, writer C.J. Hughes surveys a new phenomenon in New York City–building luxury apartments cheek-by-jowl with public housing complexes. In a city…
SCOTUS Upholds Fair Housing Protections
In the flurry of historic and high profile decisions from the US Supreme Court in June came a decision under the Fair Housing Act that will affect affordable housing developers…
Is Housing Health Care? Take 2.
The homelessness advocacy community has been generating a lot of really interesting data lately. Not unexpectedly, much of it goes to support the conclusion that permanent housing is the solution…
Housing for those Caught in the Middle
According to this article in governing.com the City of Brotherly Love is responding to the affordable housing shortage by leveraging city owned vacant land. Philadelphia is trading the value in…