{"id":332,"date":"2011-07-26T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T16:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=332"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:46:36","slug":"housing-as-a-justice-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Housing as a Justice Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from Susan Rans, MA Social Justice Community Development Graduate Program Director\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>No matter which direction you turn these days, the issue of housing appears.\u00a0 The struggling economy?\u00a0 Collapse of the housing bubble and its questionable finances.\u00a0 Neighborhood decline?\u00a0 Mortgage foreclosures and their impact.\u00a0 Unemployment? About one fifth of jobs are related to housing.\u00a0 Homelessness?\u00a0 See all of the above\u2014housing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to historical patterns of housing discrimination, the impact of predatory lending, and the disappearance of affordable and subsidized housing, these new aspects of the housing crisis make it an impossible issue to ignore.\u00a0 And yet, housing is a really difficult subject to wrap your head around, as it is multi-faceted and complex.\u00a0 Just arriving at definitions for all the terms mentioned so far requires some study and research.\u00a0 I\u2019ve often said that housing has a \u2018secret language\u2019\u2014a series of acronyms and contributing factors that housing advocates use, inscrutable to most regular folks.\u00a0 Fannie Mae?\u00a0 Freddie Mac?\u00a0 Section 8?\u00a0 Section 221 (d) 3? Leverage? Derivatives?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So how does a person who yearns for a just society enter this world?\u00a0 Here at IPS, we have a great opportunity to learn from a master.\u00a0 This Fall, Erica Pascal, housing attorney and activist, will lead us in an exploration of current housing issues.\u00a0 In fact, that\u2019s the title of the course: Current Housing Issues\u00a0 (IPS 648).\u00a0 A Community Development course open to anyone who wants to explore housing justice.\u00a0 Just thought you\u2019d want to know\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Susan Rans, MA Social Justice Community Development Graduate Program Director\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No matter which direction you turn these days, the issue of housing appears.\u00a0 The struggling economy?\u00a0 Collapse of the housing bubble and its questionable finances.\u00a0 Neighborhood decline?\u00a0 Mortgage foreclosures and their impact.\u00a0 Unemployment? About one fifth of jobs are related to housing.\u00a0 Homelessness?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=332\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,6,7,9,12,13,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-religion","category-business-religion","category-catholic-social-thought","category-chaplaincy","category-environment","category-ips","category-ips-alumni","category-service","category-social-justice-community-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4855,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/4855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}