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📰 📣 Our latest report explores how community land trusts are stepping up to help families navigate a distressed rental housing market plagued by expiring affordability mandates, market pressures, and rising development costs. Read it here: groundedsolutions.org/resources/co...
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
📰 📣 Our latest report explores how community land trusts are stepping up to help families navigate a distressed rental housing market plagued by expiring affordability mandates, market pressures, and rising development costs. Read it here: groundedsolutions.org/resources/co...
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When voters think about rent, housing policy wins (mostly).
Read the breakdown of the 2025 housing ballot results across the country: bit.ly/3LHVUNK
#Elections2025 #Shelterforce
Read the breakdown of the 2025 housing ballot results across the country: bit.ly/3LHVUNK
#Elections2025 #Shelterforce
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November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
When voters think about rent, housing policy wins (mostly).
Read the breakdown of the 2025 housing ballot results across the country: bit.ly/3LHVUNK
#Elections2025 #Shelterforce
Read the breakdown of the 2025 housing ballot results across the country: bit.ly/3LHVUNK
#Elections2025 #Shelterforce
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🏦 Thank you, Sen. Cortez Masto, for shining a light on CLTs during the Banking Committee's recent nomination hearing. CLTs are instrumental in addressing the nation's housing affordability crisis, and we appreciate your steadfast support.
📺 Full hearing: www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/10/...
📺 Full hearing: www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/10/...
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
🏦 Thank you, Sen. Cortez Masto, for shining a light on CLTs during the Banking Committee's recent nomination hearing. CLTs are instrumental in addressing the nation's housing affordability crisis, and we appreciate your steadfast support.
📺 Full hearing: www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/10/...
📺 Full hearing: www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/10/...
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The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.
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🗣️ New Webinar Alert: On 11/6 from 3–4 pm ET, we’ll host a webinar exploring the vital role Housing Finance Authorities play in scaling homes with lasting affordability by supporting both production and buyers.
📝 Register at groundedsolutions.org/event/scalin...
📝 Register at groundedsolutions.org/event/scalin...
October 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🗣️ New Webinar Alert: On 11/6 from 3–4 pm ET, we’ll host a webinar exploring the vital role Housing Finance Authorities play in scaling homes with lasting affordability by supporting both production and buyers.
📝 Register at groundedsolutions.org/event/scalin...
📝 Register at groundedsolutions.org/event/scalin...
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‼️ The ROAD to Housing Act was included in the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). We hope the House will continue the good work by bringing their own improvements to this important legislative initiative. (1/4)
October 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
‼️ The ROAD to Housing Act was included in the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). We hope the House will continue the good work by bringing their own improvements to this important legislative initiative. (1/4)
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From rent strikes to the fight for fair housing at Stuyvesant Town—NYC’s tenant movement shaped history.
Read about the Museum of the City of New York’s housing exhibition: bit.ly/42RtXII
#TenantRights #FairHousing
Read about the Museum of the City of New York’s housing exhibition: bit.ly/42RtXII
#TenantRights #FairHousing
October 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
From rent strikes to the fight for fair housing at Stuyvesant Town—NYC’s tenant movement shaped history.
Read about the Museum of the City of New York’s housing exhibition: bit.ly/42RtXII
#TenantRights #FairHousing
Read about the Museum of the City of New York’s housing exhibition: bit.ly/42RtXII
#TenantRights #FairHousing
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✨ #MemberSpotlight: This month, we're featuring a conversation with @homesteadclt.bsky.social CEO Kathleen Hosfeld about her organization’s goals, challenges, and accomplishments, as well as her personal journey to the field of affordable housing.
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Conversation with Homestead Community Land Trust CEO: Kathleen Hosfeld – Grounded Solutions Network
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October 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
✨ #MemberSpotlight: This month, we're featuring a conversation with @homesteadclt.bsky.social CEO Kathleen Hosfeld about her organization’s goals, challenges, and accomplishments, as well as her personal journey to the field of affordable housing.
groundedsolutions.org/conversation...
groundedsolutions.org/conversation...
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Did you know that Grounded Solutions Network members receive an automatic discount on Training Institute Online courses? And if more than one person from your organization registers, you receive an additional discount! Spaces are filling up quickly, so register today! learning.groundedsolutions.org
October 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Did you know that Grounded Solutions Network members receive an automatic discount on Training Institute Online courses? And if more than one person from your organization registers, you receive an additional discount! Spaces are filling up quickly, so register today! learning.groundedsolutions.org
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Apollo and Daphne, artist unknown, 1630-60
September 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Apollo and Daphne, artist unknown, 1630-60
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✨ This month’s Member Spotlight from the Mueller Foundation in Austin, TX, illustrates how a community, city, and developer can work together to create a stable, inclusive, economically viable, and desirable mixed-income neighborhood. groundedsolutions.org/member-spotl...
August 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
✨ This month’s Member Spotlight from the Mueller Foundation in Austin, TX, illustrates how a community, city, and developer can work together to create a stable, inclusive, economically viable, and desirable mixed-income neighborhood. groundedsolutions.org/member-spotl...
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i need politicians to be as mad at housing prices as they are about cracker barrel's new logo
August 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
i need politicians to be as mad at housing prices as they are about cracker barrel's new logo
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe. ⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️
She was there before Little Richard, Johnny Cash & Elvis Presley swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars.
She was there before Little Richard, Johnny Cash & Elvis Presley swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars.
August 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Sister Rosetta Tharpe. ⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️
She was there before Little Richard, Johnny Cash & Elvis Presley swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars.
She was there before Little Richard, Johnny Cash & Elvis Presley swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars.
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👏👏👏 Congrats to our member organization South Tower Community Land Trust for bringing Fresno’s first-ever community land trust-owned home to market.
#LastingAffordability #CLTs #AffordableHousing
#LastingAffordability #CLTs #AffordableHousing
‘Neighbors looking after neighbors.’ Could this be the future of affordable housing in Fresno?
Fresno’s first-ever community land trust-owned home went on the market Wednesday in the city’s South Tower neighborhood. The single-family home, located on Farris Avenue just north of Belmont, was…
Fresno’s first-ever community land trust-owned home went on the market Wednesday in the city’s South Tower neighborhood. The single-family home, located on Farris Avenue just north of Belmont, was…
‘Neighbors looking after neighbors.’ Could this be the future of affordable housing in Fresno?
Fresno’s first-ever community land trust-owned home went on the market Wednesday in the city’s South Tower neighborhood. The single-family home, located on Farris Avenue just north of Belmont, was purchased and renovated by the South Tower Community Land Trust over the past year-and-a-half. Now, it’s for sale for $215,000, well under the neighborhood’s median home price of about $345,000, according to June figures from Redfin…
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August 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
👏👏👏 Congrats to our member organization South Tower Community Land Trust for bringing Fresno’s first-ever community land trust-owned home to market.
#LastingAffordability #CLTs #AffordableHousing
#LastingAffordability #CLTs #AffordableHousing
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really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
August 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
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I've never seen O'Keefe's urban paintings before, but I like them. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/g...
Georgia O'Keeffe's Breathtaking New York City Paintings Are Finally Getting the Attention They Deserve
The artist's cityscapes, once dismissed as too masculine, would later influence the floral artworks that became central to her iconic style
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August 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I've never seen O'Keefe's urban paintings before, but I like them. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/g...
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I'm not a Christian, but I do admire those few who take the compassion and justice messages of that faith seriously, even when it's not easy. I knew on first listen I wanted to share this poem (and it was worth the work it took to track the poet down for permission). shelterforce.org/2025/07/16/p...
Poem: Hospitality
New Hampshire poet Matthew Richards reflects on the difficulty of living out what one professes to believe.
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July 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I'm not a Christian, but I do admire those few who take the compassion and justice messages of that faith seriously, even when it's not easy. I knew on first listen I wanted to share this poem (and it was worth the work it took to track the poet down for permission). shelterforce.org/2025/07/16/p...
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👏 We applaud Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott and Ranking Member @warren.senate.gov's leadership on a robust housing package to tackle our nation’s housing crisis.
📜 The #ROADtoHousingAct specifically elevates shared equity programs in key sections. Read our statement: bit.ly/46xVsdi
📜 The #ROADtoHousingAct specifically elevates shared equity programs in key sections. Read our statement: bit.ly/46xVsdi
July 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
👏 We applaud Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott and Ranking Member @warren.senate.gov's leadership on a robust housing package to tackle our nation’s housing crisis.
📜 The #ROADtoHousingAct specifically elevates shared equity programs in key sections. Read our statement: bit.ly/46xVsdi
📜 The #ROADtoHousingAct specifically elevates shared equity programs in key sections. Read our statement: bit.ly/46xVsdi
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📰 Great article by @shelterforce.bsky.social and @nextcity.org laying out exactly how the Trump Administration's new tax law will severely undercut affordable housing progress.
The president's tax law raises funding for LIHTC, but steep cuts to social programs will more than outweigh the benefits. Shelterforce and @nextcity.org take a closer look at what's in the tax law, along with a second bill that would slash housing funding if passed. Read here: bit.ly/44YyPO1
How Trump’s Tax Law Will Deepen Housing Insecurity
Steep cuts are planned for social programs. Here's a look at what's in the tax law, along with a second bill that would slash housing funding if passed.
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July 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
📰 Great article by @shelterforce.bsky.social and @nextcity.org laying out exactly how the Trump Administration's new tax law will severely undercut affordable housing progress.
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📢 🗓️ Are you in the process of launching a shared equity program or organization? Join us from 2–4 pm ET on July 30 for a free “Ask Me Anything” session about using the right legal documents to effectively capture your mission and goals.
groundedsolutions.org/event/ask-me...
groundedsolutions.org/event/ask-me...
July 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
📢 🗓️ Are you in the process of launching a shared equity program or organization? Join us from 2–4 pm ET on July 30 for a free “Ask Me Anything” session about using the right legal documents to effectively capture your mission and goals.
groundedsolutions.org/event/ask-me...
groundedsolutions.org/event/ask-me...
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise energy and borrowing costs, hurting renters, homeowners, builders, and operators of housing of all types. This will, in turn, worsen our current housing crisis.
Read our statement: groundedsolutions.org/grounded-sol...
#AffordableHousing #OBBBA
Read our statement: groundedsolutions.org/grounded-sol...
#AffordableHousing #OBBBA
Grounded Solutions Network Issues Statement in Response to Passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act – Grounded Solutions Network
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July 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise energy and borrowing costs, hurting renters, homeowners, builders, and operators of housing of all types. This will, in turn, worsen our current housing crisis.
Read our statement: groundedsolutions.org/grounded-sol...
#AffordableHousing #OBBBA
Read our statement: groundedsolutions.org/grounded-sol...
#AffordableHousing #OBBBA
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“From The Depths,” William Balfour Ker
June 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“From The Depths,” William Balfour Ker
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If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
~ Fred Rogers
~ Fred Rogers
June 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
~ Fred Rogers
~ Fred Rogers
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✨ This month's member spotlight: Front Step Community Land Trust
📰 Learn about the organization’s recent rebrand here: groundedsolutions.org/member-spotl...
📽️ Watch below to learn how Front Step is creating more permanently affordable housing in Missoula, MT. 👇 youtu.be/xAqGXw4QOZs
📰 Learn about the organization’s recent rebrand here: groundedsolutions.org/member-spotl...
📽️ Watch below to learn how Front Step is creating more permanently affordable housing in Missoula, MT. 👇 youtu.be/xAqGXw4QOZs
Front Step Community Land Trust
YouTube video by Front Step Community Land Trust
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June 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
✨ This month's member spotlight: Front Step Community Land Trust
📰 Learn about the organization’s recent rebrand here: groundedsolutions.org/member-spotl...
📽️ Watch below to learn how Front Step is creating more permanently affordable housing in Missoula, MT. 👇 youtu.be/xAqGXw4QOZs
📰 Learn about the organization’s recent rebrand here: groundedsolutions.org/member-spotl...
📽️ Watch below to learn how Front Step is creating more permanently affordable housing in Missoula, MT. 👇 youtu.be/xAqGXw4QOZs