A Progressive Agenda for "Housing the Working Poor" and other issues

Friends - 

The current (Fall 2007) issue of Shelterforce magazine, published by the National Housing Institute, explores strategies for promoting a progressive housing agenda in a Democratic-controlled Congress and White House after January 2009. It includes my cover story, "Housing the Working Poor," and a critique by Barbara Sard of the Center for Budget & Policy Priorities. In addition, Greg Squires of George Washington University offers a proposal for building a more robust fair-housing movement. PLUS: In “Struggling in the Crescent City,”  learn how a burgeoning network of local grass-roots organizations has taken the lead in rebuilding homes and neighborhoods two years after Katrina hit New Orleans.

With the majority of Americans now in favor of reducing poverty and dealing with the growing economic insecurity of middle-income families (including the accelerating wave of foreclosures, loss of health insurance and pensions), the time is right to advance progressive policies for achieving social and economic equity into the mainstream of American politics. Housing activists are strategizing with their political allies on how to move this agenda to center stage in the 2008 presidential debate.