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Greetings,
I am excited to officially launch The Center for Social Housing and Public Investment (CSHPI). You can visit our website by clicking here. The primary purpose of CSHPI is to promote social housing as an alternative economic development model to offer a real solution the affordable housing crisis that is currently gripping the United States. In the near term, The Center for Social Housing and Public Investment will have a heavy focus on local housing policy in Washington, DC and will prioritize developing and disseminating resources to educate District residents around the concept and the need for social housing to be implemented locally. Looking forward, CSHPI will expand its resources to include research and analysis on municipalities across the country and will advocate for social housing on a national level.
To get things started, CSHPI has prepared a report focused on local housing policy in the District of Columbia. The report is broken into four parts, and covers:
1) what Wall Street’s role in the affordable housing crisis has been and continues to be;
2) how the District of Columbia’s local economic development policy decisions drive up housing cost and exacerbate the crisis;
3) what social housing is, how it works, and why it offers a real solution to the affordable housing crisis in DC; and
4) how social housing could be implemented in Washington, DC.
In the coming weeks, The Center for Social Housing and Public Investmentwill deliver this four-part series to your e-mail inbox in installments. However, if you do not want to wait, you can also read the entire series immediately by clicking here.
In the meantime, feel free to visit our resource page to learn more about social housing. Lastly, if you like what you see, we welcome you to support our work. CSHPI is working on a shoe string budget and is counting on the grassroots support of people like you to expand our work. You can make a donation here.
Will Merrifield
Founder/Director
The Center for Social Housing and Public Investment, Inc.
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