Public Housing Can Be Great, Actually
The failures of public housing can be traced to early sabotage, chronic under-funding, and segregationist logic.” Since public housing’s creation in 1937, the private real estate lobby has ensured that government housing was segregated by race and income, built with inferior materials, and blocked from funding for necessary maintenance.
'Windfall profit': Lawmakers who build homes file bills to help their industry
Another great piece of investigative reporting by Indy Star’s Ko Lyn Cheang. The Indiana legislature is packed with home builders and landlords. That they don’t see the conflict of interest is troubling. They are either incapable or ignorant - either way it’s a problem.
Housing Density as a Climate Lever
This is a fascinating conversation from Climate One about the relationship between environmentalism and housing. It’s not what you think.
Op/Ed: I learned why Indianapolis' eviction rate is so high and what we can do to fix it.
“Why does the state of Indiana protect the landlord instead of tenants' stability and security? Perhaps more importantly, who benefits from Indiana’s deep protections of landlords and disregard for the stability and security of tenants?”
Four Reasons Religious Communities Can Make a Difference in Housing
This piece appears in Fran Quigley’s blog, Housing Is A Human Right. I’d like to add a personal note of thanks to Professor Quigley for writing what might be the quintessential reason for GIMA’s existence. Congregations can make a difference!
More Building Won’t Make Housing Affordable
America’s housing crisis has reached unfathomable proportions. But new construction isn’t enough to solve it.
A Decent Place to Live: Improving Indiana’s Public and Private Habitability Enforcement Mechanisms
Code enforcement is often disregarded in the affordable/equitable housing conversation. Purcell’s report highlights that it is one of the primary problems, not just a contributing factor. He also highlights that the city and state have lax housing and health code enforcement.
Bad landlords measure gets unanimous Senate committee support
A measure allowing utility companies to ask courts to appoint receivers over certain landlords behind on their utility bills passed unanimously out of a Senate committee Thursday.
The top states people are migrating to for affordable housing, job opportunities
We need to stop making assumptions about Indiana and face the reality that affordable housing just doesn’t exist.
Homelessness is a Housing Problem
Sounds like a no-brainer, but in most cases homelessness and housing are seen as separate issues. Changing the homelessness mindset to a housing mindset broadens everything and gets those operating in both, mostly separate arena, working together.
The Tenant Movement Will Build on the Biden “Nothingburger” Rent Announcement
President Biden issued his formal response to the campaign last week, and it was a disappointment.
'I'm tired of this' | Hoosiers fighting for better tenant laws
Another story of Indianapolis renters who are forced to live in inhabitable conditions because their landlords will not make repairs.
Time to Stop Pushing Homeownership?
A recent article by Jerusalem Desmas in The Atlantic made a bold claim: The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake. Like all of Desmas’ writing on housing (check out her work in The Atlantic and in Vox), the piece is extremely well-reasoned and researched, and definitely worth your time to give it a full read. But is her argument correct?
A computer model predicts who will become homeless in L.A. Then these workers step in
Los Angeles is using predictive algorithms to identify people who might be at risk of evictions and homelessness. Imagine having a tool that let’s us help someone before they get to the point of eviction or homelessness!