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Family Re-Union 8: Family and Community |
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Selected Links
for Family and Community
Roundtable #2
Attractive, affordable housing and the opportunity to own a home
HUD (U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development)
"HUD in Your Community" links you to HUD projects and information about
community-organizing, community associations, jobs, economic development,
among others.
Livable
Communities
"Creating Better Homes and Work Places" provides links to Federal programs
that increase opportunities for home ownership, improve housing environments,
strengthen research on housing technologies and generally increase a sense
of community.
Rebuilding Communities
Initiative
Web site of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s initiative whose objectives
include improving the availability of affordable housing and improving
the social and physical infrastructure of neighborhoods.
Elderly Affordable
Housing Development
A Boston program that works toward assuring low-income elderly of attractive,
safe and affordable housing.
Metropolitan Interfaith Council on Affordable
Housing
An organization that mobilizes congregations and people of all faiths
to become involved in promoting awareness of and advocating for public
policies that maintain and increase the supply of decent, safe and affordable
housing.
Meeting America’s Housing Needs
MAHN is a project aiming to bring together a broad range of thinking into
housing planning to make better use of resources and to better meet the
needs of communities and families.
The
Enterprise Foundation
A national, nonprofit housing and community development
organization whose mission is to provide opportunities for low-income
people to have fit and affordable housing, and to improve their quality
of life.