Now in its 30th year of continuous publication, Shelterforce is the leader in presenting innovations in the field of community development to practitioners, policymakers, and the public. Shelterforce is the only independent, nonacademic "trade" publication for community builders, and examines a wide range of issues vital to community building practitioners and their supporters, including regional economic development, sustainable economic development, and the growing awareness of the interrelationship of metropolitan communities to each other.
Shelterforce closes the loop between community-based organizations, their supporters, and those in power. Shelterforce is read by people who believe that everyone in America should live in a decent and thriving community. They are people with a passionate interest in seeing our distressed neighborhoods revitalized. Our readers include professionals, students, activists, and advocates.
Reader Comments:
"Shelterforce is one of the best publications of this type, and one of the few that continue to recognize the role that community organizing plays in community and economic development. As my own professional development has broadened to encompass an entire range of community development activities, so too has the scope of issues covered by Shelterforce." Frank Ford, Vice-President for Research and Development, Neighborhood Progress Inc., Cleveland
"You and all of your associates at Shelterforce are to be commended for your vigilance and focus on some of the most salient issues facing our society today." Nathaniel C. Harris, Jr., former Senior Vice President, United National Bank
"You seem to be able to stick to the street-level perspective in a very special way – certainly makes a significant contribution when most journals drift further and further into grand policy unconnected to the day-to-day." George Knight, former Executive Director, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
"Shelterforce is, among all the junk that crosses my desk, the only one I actually take with me on the road in order to be sure to read. You are doing a great job and your pieces present a very solid 'pro/con, plus/minus' assessment of stuff which I find refreshing." Jed Emerson, founder of www.blendedvalue.org and former Executive Director, Roberts Enterprise Development Fund
"Your publication is timely, helpful, and informative... The articles about the various people making things happen are important for networking and cooperative ventures." Kristina Peterson, Church World Service
"I want to express how meaningful this latest edition [the organizing issue] is to our work. The articles directly parallel the discussions we have been having in our own work. The copies you are sending will help us to prepare the participants of the Community Organizer Symposium for in-depth discussion [of these issues.]" Becky Venne, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
"Shelterforce continues to keep us abreast of the latest trends in the field, and is a great tool for us in ongoing organizational learning." Marie Venner, Assistant Director of Property Operations, Mercy Housing System
"The articles helped us have a productive retreat last summer, in which board, staff, and community residents reviewed our approach to organizing, evaluated our willingness to engage in direct-action campaigns (leading to the launch of two exciting new campaigns, including one organizing workfare workers), focused on how we can best resolve these tensions, and how we can actually use the synergy to improve both our organizing and our development work – and increase overall community participation and accountability." Brad Lander, Director, Pratt Center for Community Development
"Thank you warmly for this great source of information, especially the clear analyses of legislation." Mrs. Carl Anthon, Washington DC
"I have been reading Shelterforce for as long as I have been actively participating in the struggle for more, higher quality, low-income housing. I consistently refer back to guest columns, feature articles that highlight projects around the nation, and issue-oriented essays that provide the most current insight and information on issues related to housing and community development." Kathryn Supinski, Rural California Housing Corp.
"The other members of our Housing Options Task Force here in Ft. Collins join me in expressing appreciation for saving us countless hours of research and expensive phone calls to obtain the information we were able to get with one phone call to you at Shelterforce. It's times like this that we realize how vital a journal like yours is for those of us working on housing out here in the hinterlands....It's one of the few magazines I read cover to cover – before lending it out..." Organizer Eliza Carney, Ft. Collins, Colorado
"There are few quality resources available for people that actively work in communities." "...[W]e spend a lot of time translating the work published by many academic institutions into a format that a broader audience can read and appreciate. It is nice to have access to a quality product such as Shelterforce that we can refer people to that I am quite certain people will be able to utilize in their work." Stephen Jeanetta of University of Missouri-Columbia's community development extension program
"I have been using Shelterforce articles in the capstone housing policy course at Georgia Tech for the last six years. Shelterforce articles from a significant part of the core of this course because they concisely combine knowledge of the most policy relevant research with a thorough presentation of contemporary policy issues. Not only do my students benefit enormously from an accurate characterization of the full dimensions of critical policy issues and debates, but I do as well." Larry Keating, Ph.D., City Planning Program, Georgia Institute of Technology
