The Housing Journal
ISSUES ONLINE:
Cover: Planning for Affordable Housing in Delaware
ARRA: A Boost for Housing and the Economy, Anas Ben Addi
A Fair Share Housing Measure for Delaware
The New Horizons Community: Why NOT In My Back Yard?
Housing in the Counties’ Comprehensive Plans
Cover: Where are our policies taking us?
Who Can Afford to Live in Delaware? 2010
The Racial Wealth Gap Increases Fourfold
Universal Design in Housing, Al Rose
Accessible Housing: Building to Meet the Need, Paul Calistro
Not-So-Rosey Rental Housing, Gina Miserendino
Cover: Marshall Sahlins on Poverty
Neighborhood Stabilization Program Assists Delaware Families, Van Temple
The Impact of Affordable Housing on Property Values, Rachel G. Bratt
Accomplishing the Goals of the Fair Housing Act, Okianer Christian Dark
Equality Heals: A Review of The Spirit Level
Plummeting Taxes for the Wealthiest, Avi Feller and Chuck Marr
DHC NEWS
Old Landing II — Why NOT In My Back Yard?
Cover: Capital Green
Why Not In ALL Our Back Yards?
Governor Markell Requests $8.5 M for Housing in FY11
Homeless Prevention Programs in Delaware, Susan Starrett
Extremely Low-Income Working Group Releases Report
CLASI Advocates for Fair Housing, Melissa Allman
Reports on CLT Performance and Shared Equity
The Baltimore Regional Housing Campaign
Communities of Opportunity
DHC NEWS
The Fair Share Measure
Bigger Isn’t Better, Peter Victor
Homes Still Cost Too Much, John Wasik
Food Security, Land Use, and Housing, Gina Miserendino
Who Can Afford to Live in Delaware?
Chandler Heights - Why Not In My Back Yard?, Bill Roupp
Affordable Housing and Climate Change, Jim Kushner
Presbytery Statement on Communities
Minquadale Village Owns Their Land
What Do We Mean by “FAIR SHARE”?
Cover: From Dr. King's Letter from Birmingham Jail (April 16, 1963)
Good Neighborhood
Letting White People Off the Hook, Tim Wise
Fair Share Housing Formulas, Elizabeth Kowalczyk
The Sussex County Rental Program, Sandy Spence
In Delaware: Homeless, the HDF, and Federal Funds
Revitalizing Edgemoor, Cheri Whitney
Resources for an Inclusive Delaware
The King You Don't See on TV, Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
DHC 25th Anniversary, Kind Policy Awards, Round Table Forum
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
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!
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!
Cover: "Hold Dear What is Sacred," (Ann Altman)
Words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Riverside Church, April 4, 1967Contents/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!
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Realities of Poverty in Delaware, 2001 -- 2002
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
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
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 MyerEstrategia - 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
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
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
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
