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Black Investors Take Back a Legal Tool to Restore Affordable Housing

Kelli Duncan

December 07, 2023 |

Illinois Answers Project |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

The Community Receiver Program works with real estate professionals of color to rehabilitate vacant and foreclosed properties. These properties are then resold to local homebuyers — to preserve generational wealth — or rented out at affordable rates. The program trains people to be community receivers for free, teaching them how to acquire and rehabilitate the buildings, as well as how to leverage grants and local funding programs. Since 2020, the Program has trained about 520 people, rehabilitated 16 buildings and contributed about $4.5 million in restored property value.

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Why Tiny Homes Will Remain Part of California's Homelessness Equation for Years

Jeanne Kuang

October 19, 2023 |

KQED |

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Response Location: United States, San Jose, California

Tiny homes are being used to address the state’s homelessness crisis by providing a more permanent housing solution to those in need than tents or encampments. The city is currently operating 600 tiny homes and working to build more as they’ve seen a 10% decrease in the city’s unsheltered population. Of the 1,500 people who have lived in the tiny homes, 48% have moved on to permanent housing.

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Why Grove Park Residents Say This Housing Nonprofit Is Hurting Their Neighborhood

Chauncey Alcorn

September 06, 2023 |

Capital B |

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Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

Grove Park Renewal aims to help residents from the majority-black area of northwest Atlanta become homeowners by turning vacant properties into newly renovated, affordable homes. The nonprofit also offers an affordable rental program that allows qualifying individuals and families to live in one of its properties at a more affordable, income-adjusted rate.

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How one Kansas City nonprofit is providing a solution for unhoused veterans

Celia Hack Simone Garza

September 05, 2023 |

Wichita Journalism Collaborative |

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Response Location: United States, Wichita, Kansas

The Veterans Community Project (VCP) offers a village of 49 tiny homes to unhoused veterans free of charge, with extremely low barriers to entry to ensure all veterans in need can receive support. The tiny homes are fully furnished and those who live in the village also have access to health services, education, employment referrals and a sense of community. The VCP also helps veterans become financially stable and seek out permanent housing. Since the VCP opened, 85% of veterans who have stayed in the village have successfully transitioned to permanent housing.

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“I wish it were this easy for everyone out there”: How digital platforms are reshaping rental experiences in Tanzania

Mweha Msemo

August 30, 2023 |

Minority Africa |

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Response Location: Tanzania

In response to a lack of action from local government, individuals are turning to digital platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook groups to avoid scammers and price gouging in the rental industry. These groups have thousands of members and allow landlords and tenants to interact directly without middlemen interfering and charging unnecessary fees.

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Grassroots Housing Reparations

Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

August 29, 2023 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

The best way to grow generational wealth in the United States is by owning a home, so the Portland-based collective Taking Ownership is fighting the effects of gentrification in Black neighborhoods by helping homeowners do necessary home improvement work. Volunteers and licensed contractors do the work, and the projects are funded with donations from mostly White and wealthy donors.

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Everyone's tired of homelessness in California. Are you willing to rent your extra room to help?

Ethan Ward

July 11, 2023 |

AfroLA |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

The Homecoming Project helps provide housing for formerly incarcerated people by matching those in need with homeowners offering spare bedrooms. Since starting in 2018, The Homecoming Project has placed nearly 100 people in host homes and has helped those individuals connect with employment and long-term housing.

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Larchmere Homes: 30 new affordable lease-purchase homes near completion

Lee Chilcote

July 11, 2023 |

The Land |

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Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

The CHN Housing Partners’ lease-purchase program builds affordable homes for low-income individuals to rent. Residents live and pay rent in the homes for 15 years while taking homeownership and financial counseling courses to equip them with the knowledge and skills necessary to become homeowners. Over the past 30 years, CHN has built more than 1,700 lease-purchase homes and more than 1,600 of them have been sold to owner-occupants.

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Portland group works to make wealth redistribution a reality through real estate

Tiffany Camhi

May 18, 2023 |

Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) |

Radio |

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Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

Volunteers of the PDX Housing Solidarity Project are working to redistribute generational wealth through homeownership in Portland. The project connects people with ample resources to Black and Indigenous homebuyers and helps facilitate cash gifts, no-interest loans, or other ways to assist throughout the process.

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A Wyoming group moves homes to save affordable housing and preserve history

Mary Steurer

February 26, 2023 |

Casper Star-Tribune |

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Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

Shacks on Racks relocates houses and works to make homeownership more accessible to area workers. Since starting in 2016, the non-profit has relocated 21 houses. For those 21 saved houses, Shacks on Racks estimates they’ve spared landfills more than 1.2 million pounds of waste.

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