Educate

Educate yourself and others about housing related issues. Share your knowledge with friends and family.

  • If you see an article about affordable housing, read it. Seek news from a variety of sources and perspectives. Sign-up for HousingLink's Housing News , a weekly email newsletter that summarizes and provides links to housing related articles appearing in metro area newspapers.  Looking for national news? Open House Blog , is a news source and  forum for everything housing related in the nation. Follow Kim Skobba's blog entitled Housing Sense: Making sense of housing research, trends and talk
  • Explore the connection between race and housing on this interactive site: Where Race Lives: Your Home is Your Future  Ask your local library about the video RACE – The Power of an Illusion Episode III: The House We Live In (part of a three-episode series). Click here for the transcript: http://www.newsreel.org/transcripts/race3.htm
  • Need a research topic for school? Research affordable housing for your next paper or presentation.
  • Select a housing or poverty themed book for your book club. Recommendations include, ‘Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America,’ by Barbara Ehrenreich; ‘The Missing Class,’ by Katherine S. Newman; ‘Theology of the Hammer,’ by Millard Fuller; ‘Praying for Sheetrock,’ by Melissa Fay Greene. ‘Creating a Habitat for Humanity: No Hands but Yours’, by Jonathan A. Reckford.
  • Help educate today’s youth to be tomorrow’s leaders. Habitat for Humanity International has created resources, curriculum, games and activities intended for teachers, parents and other youth leaders, as well as other student groups, to use with youth ages 5 to 25 to teach about housing issues around the world.http://www.habitat.org/youthprograms/t2/parent_teacher_default.aspx
  • There are many aspects to the foreclosure crisis and a growing number of articles and resources about this issue. Listed here are several articles which offer a little more insight into foreclosure.
  • How much of your income should go to paying for your housing and does race play a role in home ownership in Minnesota? The Minnesota Compass takes a look at these issues.

Continue your education by viewing the following websites: