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The Digital Equity Act (DEA) is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to design systems that will enable true digital equity. Congress and NTIA outlined specifics for states to include in their digital equity plans. The NDIA State Digital Equity Plan Toolkit provides guidance on how to compile the plans. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) team combined our own subject matter expertise, lessons learned from our community of over 1,000 affiliates across the country, and our understanding of the DEA as it appears in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Notice of Funding...
Topics: Broadband, Community development, Funding, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Partnerships
Shared by Sandra Ware
on May 2, 2023 0
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Many students and families arrive in the U.S. from other countries without safe, stable housing, and experience homelessness and high mobility that can last for months. At SchoolHouse Connection, we recognize the crucial role that schools can play in providing stability and support to mitigate the disruption and trauma caused by homelessness. This page is dedicated to providing educators, policymakers, and advocates with valuable resources on how to best support these families and youth, and help ensure that all students have the opportunity to succeed in school and beyond.
Topics: Early childhood, Education, Grade-level proficiency, Homelessness, Housing, Immigrants, Legislation & Policy, School-readiness, Youth
Shared by Sandra Ware
on Mar 14, 2023 0
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How a national funder collaborative is empowering communities, expanding access to housing in BIPOC neighborhoods, and changing policies, narratives, and systems that perpetuate racial injustice.
Topics: Funding, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Racial inequalities
Shared by Sandra Ware
on Jan 3, 2023 0
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Is the future of philanthropy a more collaborative one? The leaders of Funders for Housing and Opportunity share lessons to help the field learn—and evolve—in real time.
Topics: Community development, Funding, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Racial inequalities
Shared by Sandra Ware
on Jan 3, 2023 0
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Three social change leaders discuss how to move the narrative about housing away from a focus on individual actions toward values, racial justice, and the well-being of all.
Topics: Housing, Legislation & Policy, Racial inequalities
Shared by Sandra Ware
on Jan 3, 2023 0
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Two housing justice advocates discuss different approaches to policy change and the importance of centering the voices of people most affected by systemic barriers and inequities in housing.
Topics: Advocacy, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Racial inequalities
Shared by Sandra Ware
on Jan 3, 2023 0
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Local initiatives are breaking new ground to make access to housing and opportunity more affordable and equitable and to increase the resources dedicated to housing justice.
Topics: Community development, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Partnerships, Racial inequalities
Shared by Sandra Ware
on Jan 3, 2023 0
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Chicago’s troubling homicide rate could be significantly reduced through a massive increase in state spending for Chicago schools. That's just one of the proposals floated Monday by a prominent University of Chicago economist Jens Ludwig. With a substantial commitment, he says homicides could be reduced by nearly 60 percent. Illinois is dead last when it comes to the percentage of education dollars provided by the state to its cities. Ludwig believes adding $1.7 billion dollars would not only bring Illinois up to the national average, but could substantially reduce gun violence as well....
Topics: Child welfare, Community development, Education, Funding, Legislation & Policy, Preventative care, Youth
Shared by Housing Is
on Oct 15, 2020 0
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Zoning rules dictate more than just how we can use and build on land. They also shape our communities and our lives. Land use laws determine where we can find housing, schools, and parks—and who has access to them.
Topics: Health, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Racial inequalities
Shared by Housing Is
on Jun 13, 2019 0
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More than a half million renters have been evicted in Los Angeles County over the past eight years, according to a new report by Public Counsel and the UCLA School of Law that calls on county supervisors to adopt permanent rent control measures.
Topics: Homelessness, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Research, West Coast
Shared by Housing Is
on Jun 13, 2019 0
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The Trump Administration is publicly weighing plans to gradually lower the official poverty line by applying a smaller cost-of-living adjustment each year. Doing so would be unjustified for several reasons.
Topics: Child welfare, Food insecurity, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Nutrition, Stability
Shared by Housing Is
on Jun 11, 2019 0
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This paper analyzes why SNAP benefits are inadequate, reviews the body of research showing positive effects from more adequate SNAP benefits, and offers key policy solutions to improve benefit adequacy.
Topics: Food insecurity, Health, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Nutrition, Research
Shared by Housing Is
on Jun 11, 2019 0
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In the United States, more than 2.7 million grandparents report that they’re primarily responsible for their grandchildren under 18. The problem is many are struggling with food insecurity because of federal rules and regulations.
Topics: Child welfare, Food insecurity, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Nutrition
Shared by Housing Is
on Jun 11, 2019 0
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A new study finds that higher percentages of wealthy, Asian, and white residents live in HOAs; and people pay a premium of about 4 percent for homes in HOAs.
Topics: Community development, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Racial inequalities, Research
Shared by Housing Is
on Jun 6, 2019 0
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A rule proposed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development may allow single-sex shelters to turn away trans people.
Topics: Homelessness, Housing, Legislation & Policy
Shared by Housing Is
on May 30, 2019 0
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Policymakers, academics and criminal-justice reformers all agree that access to education is both a front-end and back-end tool that decreases crime, increases social and economic mobility and supports informed, engaged citizenship. Not only is high-quality education effective, it is a lot less expensive than the cost of mass incarceration.
Topics: Criminal justice, Education, Legislation & Policy
Shared by Housing Is
on May 30, 2019 0
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After natural disasters, recovery efforts tend to lift up those who have resources to bounce back quickly, but cement poverty for those with modest means.
Topics: Funding, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, U.S. Territories
Shared by Housing Is
on May 29, 2019 0
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Amid attacks on several food security programs from the Trump administration, this proposed change could ignite yet another debate about where we draw the line.
Topics: Food insecurity, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Nutrition
Shared by Housing Is
on May 28, 2019 0
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How do you fix health inequity in the United States? The education and health-care communities as well as policymakers must consider what are known as the social determinants of health as an integral part of solving this dilemma. Additionally, communities need to stop thinking of health care as care only received in a medical environment such as a hospital or clinic. Instead we must consider health-care holistically as a service given in our homes, our schools, our workplaces, our parks and our communities. These services are provided by an array of health-care providers, including nurses,...
Topics: Food insecurity, Health, Lead, Legislation & Policy, Nutrition, Racial inequalities, Transportation
Shared by Housing Is
on May 20, 2019 0
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Mold. Leaks. Rodents. Crime. These are just some of the things the nation's 2 million public housing residents have to worry about. Many of the buildings they live in have been falling into disrepair for decades. Public housing officials estimate that it would cost $50 billion to fix them up. But the Trump administration wants to eliminate the federal fund now used to repair public housing in favor of attracting more private investment to fix up and replace it.
Topics: CLPHA, Funding, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Low-income
Shared by Housing Is
on May 20, 2019 0
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Charlotte city planners working to rewrite outdated zoning codes are exploring a controversial and bold idea of eliminating single-family zoning. Leaders are following cues from other cities like Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, which have taken the step in an effort to undo decades of racial segregation and income inequality in housing.
Topics: Housing, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Racial inequalities, South
Shared by Housing Is
on May 20, 2019 0
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A decade from now, most middle-income seniors will not be able to pay the rising costs of independent or assisted living.
Topics: Health, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Seniors
Shared by Housing Is
on May 20, 2019 0
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Low- and moderate-income families in Puerto Rico would get a significant income boost from the Working Families Tax Relief Act, which would substantially expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC) in Puerto Rico as well as nationally and also help the Commonwealth expand its own, recently implemented Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The bill, which Senators Sherrod Brown, Michael Bennet, Richard Durbin, and Ron Wyden introduced recently, would reduce poverty and increase economic security for millions of working families in the United States, including Puerto Rico.
Topics: Child welfare, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, U.S. Territories
Shared by Housing Is
on May 15, 2019 0
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The Trump administration is proposing regulatory changes that could result in cuts in federal aid to millions of low-income Americans.
Topics: Food insecurity, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Medicaid / Medicare
Shared by Housing Is
on May 14, 2019 0
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged that a Trump administration plan to purge undocumented immigrants from public housing could displace more than 55,000 children, all of whom are legal U.S. residents or citizens.
Topics: Housing, Immigrants, Legislation & Policy
Shared by Housing Is
on May 10, 2019