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Hot-Button Housing Issues for Voters and Candidates

In this election season, foreclosures and the broader economic tailspin fueled by housing and credit market woes have cast a spotlight on housing. However, foreclosures and mortgage markets are just one piece of the housing puzzle that candidates and voters should consider. A whole range of housing and community development issues are affecting Americans, their communities, and the nation’s overall economic and social health. This overview introduces some of those issues and the players who have long-shaped the way in which they are addressed...(read more)


	Florida Real Estate Defies Reports Of Its Demise St. Petersburg Times (Florida) \| September 5, 2008 Topic: Public Housing
	N. Philadelphia Residents Deliver Fiery Complaints Over Zoned Housing The Philadelphia Daily News \| September 5, 2008 Topic: Single-Family Housing
	Smart Growth Measure Will Combat Emissions Contra Costa Times (California) \| September 4, 2008 Topic: Smart Growth
	Fair Housing Hearing Board's Tenants' Rights Handbook Out Sept. 9 US States News \| September 3, 2008 Topic: Fair Housing
	55-And-Up Homeowners Granted Room To Expand In Pennsylvania Community Lancaster New Era (Pennsylvania) \| September 4, 2008 Topic: Planning & Zoning

Refundable Credits Have Cut Taxes for Low-Income Households
Roberton Williams
Urban Institute
August 19, 2008

Urban and Rural Children Experience Similar Rates of Low-Income and Poverty
Allison Churilla
Carsey Institute
Summer 2008

The New Orleans Index Anniversary Edition: Three Years after Katrina
Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, Greater New Orleans Community
Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
August 4, 2008

The Third Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
July 2008

To Be Strong Again: Renewing the Promise in Smaller Industrial Cities
Radhika Fox, Miriam Axel-Lute
PolicyLink
July 2008

WHAT'S NEW

Education Rights of Homeless, Transitional Students

Wed., Sept. 10 at 1 p.m. ET

Children who move more than three times in six years can fall an entire school year behind classmates who don't move as often. In the current housing crisis, students staying with relatives or friends after being put out of their homes through foreclosures are at educational risk. This audio training from the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty covers the McKinney-Ventro Act, which permits homeless and transitional students to stay enrolled in their schools even when their home situations change. The training also includes information on how the act applies to early childhood education, special education, and higher education.

For more information on the audio training, click here.

SPOTLIGHT

Focusing the Media on Ending Homelessness

Engaging the media is invaluable when advocating for change. This how-to guide from the National Alliance to End Homelessness, provides methods for increasing media coverage of homelessness and poverty issues. These tools can be utilized to encourage print, broadcast, and online media even with little or no communications funding. Included are instructions for writing press releases and opinion pieces, pitching reporters, conducting interviews, effectively monitoring the media, and more.

To download the how-to kit, click here.

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