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The latest issue of Shelterforce is now online at www.nhi.org. You’ll find a summary and links to each of the feature articles below.
Manhattan’s Disappearing Middle Class
Does the $5.4 billion sale of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village mean the end of the middle class in Manhattan? With the average price of an apartment at the million-dollar mark, NYC is becoming a place where only the very rich and the very subsidized can afford to live. Tenant advocates say that the inevitable loss of over 11,000 affordable, middle-income apartments might never have been possible if there were stronger rent regulations. The right mix of regulations, they say, would allow the real-estate market to grow while maintaining a healthy diversity of incomes in the city.
Read about it in: A Very High Stakes Deal Â*By Brad Lander

http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/148/highstakes.html
The Housing Rights Debate
Housing as a human right has been advocated, and in many places recognized, internationally for many years. Only a few weeks ago, France extended to all its citizens Â*– from the homeless to the working poor to struggling single mothers – a guaranteed Right to Housing, while the U.K. has a long history of social housing entitlements. Yet here in the United States, one of the most prosperous, socially advanced countries in the world, the Right to Housing remains elusive. As more Americans struggle to find affordable homes, many turning to the streets, advocates contend that the need for such a right is more urgent than ever, and that its benefits will be far reaching.
Read about it in: The Case for a Right to Housing Â*By Chester Hartman
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/148...tohousing.html
Too Close for Comfort
What happens when the latté crowd tries to push out the soup kitchen? If two Boston service agencies are any proof – nothing. Using vastly different strategies, Haley House, a storied soup kitchen, and Pine Street Inn, a decades-old homeless shelter, successfully resisted the powerful forces of gentrification to maintain their hard-won places in Boston’s now-tony South End.
Read their story in: Already In My Back YardÂ* By Caitlin Gallagher

http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/148...ybackyard.htmlÂ*
Also in this issue:
Why CDCs Should Advocate for a Right to HousingÂ*Â*By Rachel G. Bratt

While not a panacea, a right to housing would enhance and expand the work of CDCs and nonprofit housing developers.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/148/whycdcs.htmlÂ*
A Merger of EqualsÂ*Â*By David Cramer and Robert O. Zdenek
Two mature Cincinnati CDCs found that by merging they created an organization greater than the sum of its parts and ready to guide its community towards equitable revitalization.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/148...rofequals.htmlÂ*
Housing for AllÂ*Â*By David Holtzman

Simple and low-cost design changes can make homes attractive to everyone and accessible to the disabled and elderly.
Making Tax Credits Work for the Disabled 
Â*By Steve Gold, Kristina Klugar and Mark Schwartz
Changing the subsidy formula allowed one state housing agency to help create hundreds of units for low-income disabled households.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/148...rdisabled.html
Midterm Election Analysis

Sheila Crowley of the National Low Income Housing Coalition and John Taylor of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition look at what's in store for housing and community development advocates from the incoming 110th Congress.
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/148...dcongress.html2006 Housing & Community Development VictoriesÂ*Compiled By Nichole Brown
While housing and community development stalled at the federal level, advocates scored victories around the nation.

http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/148/cdvictories.htmlÂ*

Questions? Contact Nichole Brown at nbrown@nhi.org (nbrown@nhi.org)
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Utne Reader Chooses Shelterforce
Out of about 1,500 magazines, newsletters and other publications the Utne Reader gets every month, they choose a few each week to highlight. This week they chose Shelterforce: www.utne.com/web_special/web_specials_2007-01/articles/12425-1.html.
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