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Spring 2008

  • Cover: Dr. King on Wealth and Poverty
  • Rental Housing in Delaware Still Out of Reach
  • The Memphis Strike: Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
  • Income Inequality in Delaware Increases
  • Dr. King's Prescription for Poverty
  • Building a Foundation for Housing: A Platform for the Next Governor
  • DHC News and Calendar

Winter 2008

  • Cover: "Homeless Near a Thousand Homes"
  • Increase the HDF: $6 Million in FY09
  • Homeless Near a Thousand Homes
  • The Foreclosure Crisis: The Worst is Yet to Come
  • Recent Reports on Homeownership
  • Housing Needs of the State's Extremely Poor
  • AT DHC: Annual Meeting 2007 and Legislative Awards
  • Gratitude
  • Join HANDS!

Fall 2007

  • Cover: "Day for Housing, May 2007"
  • Contents/Acknowledgements
  • "Who Can Afford to Live in Delaware?"
  • Our Mansion Problem, Stan Cox
  • The National Housing Trust Fund
  • Testimony on the NAHT, Joe Myer
  • Delaware's Neighborhood Assistance Act, Sandra Spence
  • County Housing Trust Funds, Ken Smith
  • CLTs in Great Britain, Mike Brown
  • DHC News and Events
  • Join HANDS with DHC!

 


Winter/Spring 2007

  • Cover: "Hold Dear What is Sacred," (Ann Altman)
    Words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Riverside Church, April 4, 1967
  • Contents/Acknowledgements
  • Givings: The Flip Side of Takings, David Morris
  • Henry George and CLTs, Rosalind Greenstein
  • The ARC of Delaware, Patricia Kelleher
  • Housing Our Poor, Ken Smith
  • Manufactured Housing Lot Rent Assistance, Gina Miserendino
  • Balanced Housing, Van Temple
  • Day for Housing 2007
  • GRATITUDE
  • Join HANDS!

Fall 2006

  • The CLT and Subsidy Preservation
  • Delaware Mortgage Foreclosures, Gerry Kelly
  • Gratitude
  • The House that Reentry Built, Lauren Sutton
  • Delaware Labor Pains: The Minimum Wage, Gina Miserendino

Spring/Summer 2006

  • Cover: "While There is a Lower Class," -- Eugene Debs (Khalil Bendib)
  • Contents/Acknowledgements
  • Homelessness and Healing, David R. Miller
  • Thoughts on the HDF, Michael Skipper
  • GRATITUDE
  • National Community Land Trust News, Marlena Gibson
  • Sussex County MPHU Program, Gina Miserendino
  • Day for Housing 2006
  • Realities of Poverty in Delaware, 2005-2006


Winter 2006
  • Cover: "Manufactured Housing: Precarious and Precious Resource"
  • Contents/Acknowledgements
  • Hope and Fear on King Day, Marcellus Andrews
  • A Manufactured Housing Notification Law, Ken Smith
  • Building for Change, Susan Witt
  • The Housing Development Fund and Housing Needs, Marlena Gibson
  • GRATITUDE
  • A Count of Delaware's Homeless, Cara Armbrister
  • Mutual Aid, Suresh Naidu
  • 2006 Day for Housing, Wednesday, March 22 in Dover!

Fall 2005

  • Cover: "We Are Born to Cooperate." --Martin Buber (Khalil Bendib)
  • Contents/Acknowledgements
  • Land Use and Housing Affordability, Gina Miserendino
  • The Diamond State Community Land Trust, Marlena Gibson
  • Delaware's Severely Unaffordable Housing, NLIHC
  • Dreaming Another American Dream, Ken Smith
  • I'M HOME Initiative in Delaware
  • DHC Annual Meeting, December 1, 2005

Summer 2005

  • Cover: Who Can Afford to Live in Delaware?
  • Contents/Acknowledgements
  • Delaware Tenants Seek Advice, Tina Riley
  • Gratitude
  • High Demand, Inadequate Supply, Greta Huegel
  • Workforce Issues in Affordable Housing, Michael Skipper
  • Stewardship of Land and Resources, Ken Smith
  • June 2005 Home Ownership Month Activities

Winter 2005

  • Cover: We Shall Not Be Moved (Khalil Bendib)
  • Contents/Acknowledgements
  • Say, "Community," Ken Smith
  • GRATITUDE
  • The Housing Economic Impact Study, Marlena Melhunek
  • Moderately Priced Dwelling Units, Mable Granke
  • Inclusive Communities, Joe L. Myer
  • The Productive Housing Development Fund, Marlena Melhunek
  • 2005 Membership Renewal Information

Fall 2004

  • Cover: Who Will Be Able to Afford to Live Here? (Khalil Bendib)
  • Contents/Acknowledgements
  • The Courage of West Rehoboth, Mable Granke
  • Financing Housing Trust Funds, Marlena Melhunek
  • Annual Report to Members, Fall 2004
  • Gratitude, Five-Year Plan Endorsers, and DHC Legislative Priorities
  • The Face of Delaware's Manufactured Housing, Marlena Melhunek
  • The Five-Year Strategic Housing Plan

Summer 2004

  • Cover: Where Others Fear to Tread: Nonprofit Housing Development in Delaware
  • Contents/Acknowledgements
  • The Five Year Strategic Housing Plan
  • Interfaith Housing Delaware: Dressing Up Belvedere, Dennis Sheer
  • The Kind Policy Awards, 2003 - 2004
  • Action Steps for Affordable Housing
  • Inter Faith Mission of Sussex County: Acorn Acres Takes Root, Maggie Cook-Pleasant and Gina Miserendino
  • An Open Letter to the Governor, Bobbie Hemmerich
  • DHC Activity
  • Milford Housing Development Corporation: New Lease on Life at Park Royal, David Moore and Ken Smith
  • Lori Phillips, IN MEMORIAM
  • Gratitude
  • Five-Year Strategic Plan Endorsement Form

Spring 2004

  • Cover: Now Let Us Begin (Khalil Bendib)
  • Contents/Acknowledgements
  • The Plan to Devastate Vouchers
  • The County Seat Without a Chair to be Found, Shay Lipshitz
  • The State of the Dream 2004
  • The Memphis Speech, April 3, 1968
  • Housing by the Numbers in Delaware
  • The National Housing Trust Fund Campaign
  • Fostering a Livable Delaware

Winter 2004

  • Cover: Housing for the Long Haul
  • Contents/Acknowledgements
  • The Realities of Poverty, 2003 - 2004
  • Greenfield Manor Residents: Where Are They Now?, Tina Riley
  • Morris Mill Pond Residents Plan for the Future
  • State Wide Advice for Tenants, Gina Miserendino and Tina Riley
  • Fostering a Livable Delaware: Five-Year Strategic Housing Plan
  • Housing for the Long Haul, Marlena Melhunek
  • Two Friends We Miss: John Roderick and Fritz Gottfried
  • DHC Annual Conference, May 5, 2004

Fall 2003

  • Annual Report to Members, Fall 2003
  • Greenfield Residents Have Right to Remain, Tina Riley
  • Further Out of Reach: Affordable Housing for Poor Delawareans, Marlena Melhunek
  • The Morris Mill Pond Cooperative, Gina Miserendino
  • The Challenge of the Needs Assessment, Ken Smith
  • Faithless Partners: HUD Tenant Letter to Secretary Martinez, Michael Kane

Spring 2003

  • Whites Swim in Racial Preference, Tim Wise
  • Housing Resource Crisis Hits Delaware, Joe Myer
  • New Directions for Housing in Sussex County
  • Entrando en la Realidad, Ken Smith

 


Winter 2003

  • Hostile Housing Environments, Carol Marquez and Amanda Pieshala
  • A Tenant Survey of Apartment Availability, Gina Miserendino
  • Housing Programs for Rural America, Joe L. Myer
  • Making the Transition to Tenant Based Assistance, Terri Matushefske and Tina Riley

 


Fall 2002

  • Annual Report to Members, Fall 2002
  • Entering into Reality, Ken Smith
  • Many People Walk My Path, Carolyn Picard
  • SOCIAL HOUSING: The Housing Cooperative
  • Greenfield Manor Residents Struggle to Build a Future, Tina Riley
  • SOCIAL HOUSING: The Mutual Housing Association
  • SOCIAL HOUSING: The Community Land Trust

 


Winter 2002

  • The Platform of the Poor Peoples' Campaign/ La plataforma de la CampaZa de la Gente Pobre (1968)
  • Tenants and Democracy, Pat Todd, President of the New Castle County League of Women Voters
  • 2001 Kind Policy Awards
  • The Retreat from Social Provision: The Effects of Welfare Repeal, Dr. Karen A. Curtis
  • Transformación y comunidad, A. Hope, S. Timmel, y C. Hodzi
  • Community Transformation, Ann Hope and Sally Timmell
  • Why It Is Hard to Build Affordable Housing in Rural Delaware, Joe Myer
  • La Incriminación de la pobreza y del desamparo
  • The Criminalization of Homelessness

Fall 2001

The Realities of Poverty in Delaware, 2001 -- 2002


Summer 2001

  • Victory (for now) for Greenfield Tenants
  • Joining to Save Our Homes, Tina Riley
  • La Ley de Vivienda Justa
  • The Fair Housing Act
  • PHAs: Permanent State of Transition, Sheila Crowley
  • Influencing the Annual PHA Plan, David B. Bryson and Daniel P. Lindsey
  • Sussex County, Delaware

Winter 2001

  • EL DERECHO HUMANO A LA VIVIENDA / The Human Right to Housing
    Declaración universal de derechos humanos (The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
  • Increasing Income Inequality and Decreasing Housing Affordability
  • Let's Fight Abuse and Intimidation, Latifah Shakur
  • The Right to Organize, in Public and Multifamily Housing
  • The Real Rosa Parks, Paul Loeb
  • Tenant News

Spring 2000

  • ELOGIO AL APRENDIZAJE / Praise of Learning / Bertolt Brecht
  • Empeora Crisis Profunda en la Vivienda   (para los Pobres y las Minorías en Sussex County),
    Housing Crisis Deepens for Poor and Minorities in Sussex County, por/by Felipe Garcia-Carrion & Joe Myer
  • Estrategia - los fondamentales/ Strategy - the fundamentals/ Ellen S. Ryan
  • Usted puede ayudar impedir el envenamiento con plomo en la ninez / You Can Help Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning, Delaware Health & Social Services, Division of Public Health
  • Housing Policy Hurts Poor,  Jim Wayne
  • The Process of Building a Resident Council, the Delaware State Wide Association of Tenants (SWAT)
  • Supporting the Right to Organize: A Letter from Congressman Castle

Fall 1999

  • Primer Informe Anual de las Actividades y los Logros de OGAM (Organización Guatemalteca de Apoyo Mutuo) durante el año 1998. First Annual Report of OGAM, the Guatemalan Organization for Mutual Aid, Georgetown, Delaware
  • MUCHAS GRACIAS
        -- Chase Manhattan Foundation
        -- Greenwood Trust
        -- CCHD/CCDH
        -- League of Women Voters of Greater Dover & Delaware State Housing Authority
  • Leadership Statement of the Delaware Statewide Association of Tenants and Letter to the Delaware State Housing Authority on the Moving to Work Demonstration Program
  • New Public Housing Resident Councils Formed
  • Homeless Case Management Program Disappears by Mike Lovett of  The Shepherd's Place, Dover, Delaware
  • State's Rental Housing Gap Continues to Increase
  • Latinos & Housing in Sussex County by Gina Miserendino
  • Public Housing  in the U.S. -- JUST THE FACTS
  • Homelessness: It Could Happen to You by Tabitha Sabb
  • ... de la Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos

Summer 1999

The Realities of Poverty in Delaware, 1999 Update
The bi-annual report of the Public Assistance Task Force with analysis of affordable housing issues in Delaware by DHC


Winter 1999

  • Welfare Reform Organizing in Delaware
  • "Economic Human Rights," Cheri Honkala of KWRU addresses the U.N. on Homelessness
  • "How Can They Do That?" (Because We Let Them), Dorothy Nichols on saving subsidized housing.
  • "Heart of the Poor," by Mike Yost, a report on the Poor Peoples' Summit in Philadelphia.
  • "ShelterRight," by Kim Brockenbrough.
  • "California's Campaign for Economic Justice," by Joselita Laudencia
  • "Minnesota's Working Family Tax Credit," by Nan Madden
  • "Better Homes and Neighborhoods," Bill Roupp on nonprofit housing development in Sussex County
  • "Delaware's Continuum of Care," by Cathy Traynor, staff to the Homeless Planning Council.

Fall 1998

  • "To Get Involved or Not," by Betty Johns Burton.
  • "Housing Assistance and Welfare Reform in Delaware," a discussion of the effects of welfare reform on housing, from an address by Karen Curtis to the National Federation of Housing Counselors.
  • Housing Obstacles, Personal History -- Marcy Perkins of the Women's Center of Friendship House looks at impediments to women trying to return to the housing market.
  • "Co-Care Delaware," Jacqueline McDonald of Department of Real Estate and Housing of the City of Wilmington looks at the new Continuum of Care planning for homelessness in Delaware.
  • Gina Miserendino writes about the Job Vacancy Survey as a means of aiding the many "back-to-work" efforts being instituted in Delaware and nationally.
  • "Are We Reforming Subsidized Housing," by Dorothy Nichols.
  • "No Longer a Statistic," by Chantel Vanderhost.
  • Announcements: The Right to Organize -- Spanish-language summary of the Landlord-Tenant Code -- Farewells.

Winter 1998

  • Reflections on Homeless People's Memorial Day, 12/21/97 by Alice Tarr of Settlement House and Pat Hughes of Meeting Ground Homeless Community.
  • Articles by Ted Keller of the Citizens Coalition for Tax Reform and  Rashmi Rangan, of the Delaware Community Reinvestment Action Coalition.
  • Observations on life in public housing by Bobbie Jo King and on the first DHC School for Change by Mary Lynn O'Neal.
  • An interview with Shawna Richardson on welfare-to-work in Delaware.
  • Reflections on homelessness in Delaware by Lisa States.
  • A summary of the issue of food security in Delaware by Dr. Karen Curtis of the Center for Community Development and Family Policy of the University of Delaware.

Summer 1997

  • A Job is a Human Right, Lee Broughton of the Community Labor Action Coalition.
  • Land Use in Delaware and Affordable Housing Issues by David Holden of the DHC Board.
  • Neglected Rural Housing Needs by DHC Board Member Joe Myer.
  • Member Responses to the DHC Annual Conference: Jann Lightcapp and Bill Roupp.
  • "Enough Margin for the Homeless?," Review by Carl Mazza of Meeting Ground of the recent study, Homelessness in Delaware Revisited.
  • And a reply to the review by Steven Peuquet, co-author of the study.
  • Homelessness, Domestic Violence, and Welfare Reform, by Mary Davis of CHILD, Inc.
  • Policy Breakfast Forums: Who Can Afford to Live in Delaware
  • 1997 Summer School for Change: Getting Organized for Better Housing.

Winter 1997

  • The Pros & Cons of Low Income Tax Credits by Karen Speakman of NCALL Research.
  • Tenant Insecurity
  • Work, Wages, and Housing -- "Where are People Going to Go?," An Interview with Shawna Richardson of Clarks Corner.