Matthew Brian Hersh
Matthew Brian Hersh is senior editor at Shelterforce. E-mail Matthew at mhersh (at) nhi (dot) org.
POSTS ON ROOFLINES
- Sep 1 · Streaming Live: The Fed’s REO and Vacant Property Strategies for Neighborhood Stabilization
- Aug 24 · What? No Investment Opportunity?
- Jul 15 · Senate Passes Financial Reform; NSP 3 Included
- Jun 30 · Walkability Dictates Severity of Housing Decline
- Jun 24 · HAMP Takes a Licking
- Jun 17 · Some Relief in the Gulf for Homeowners
- Jun 10 · Strategic Default Can Make Sense, Right? Well, Not So Fast
- May 27 · Sustainability: Still a Novel Idea
- May 25 · Not Just Affordable Housing, but Connections to Neighborhoods
- May 20 · Ford Foundation Announces Five-Year, $200M Metro Program
- May 18 · HAMP Moving Along Slowly
- May 13 · HUD’s New Plan
- May 7 · Adolfo Carrión: We Hardly Knew You! (In This Capacity)
- Apr 22 · Report Shows Growing Gap Between Income and Rent
- Apr 21 · Low Income Housing Group to Release New Housing Wage Data
- Apr 15 · Viewing Housing Within a Context
- Apr 14 · Bostic: HUD’s PD&R Was “Stagnant” In Recent Years
- Apr 13 · Maintaining Tenant Input
- Apr 13 · First, Some Perspective
- Apr 13 · In Supporting Financial Protection Bureau, Merkley Looks Back
- Apr 13 · The Case for New Vouchers
- Apr 7 · Census 2010: Stand Up and Be Counted! (Or Not)
- Mar 24 · Fed to Congress: We Don’t Want That Responsibility!
- Mar 23 · Finally Moving Toward Principal Reduction?
- Mar 22 · ACORN Facing Significant Problems
- Mar 18 · Be Counted: Fill Out the Census
- Mar 15 · Taylor: Establish Meaningful Consumer Protections
- Mar 12 · Invest In Your Values
- Mar 11 · A New Turn for the Consumer Financial Protection Bill
- Mar 11 · CRA Bill Getting a Hearing
- Mar 11 · Trasviña Hints at a Fairer Housing Act; Principal Reduction in Store?
- Mar 11 · NCRC’s Keys From the Crisis Initiative
- Mar 11 · Day 2 at NCRC’s 2010 National Convention
- Mar 10 · Going Where the Big Boats Are
- Mar 10 · Getting Through the Storm
- Mar 8 · The Administration’s Short-Sale Program
- Mar 4 · Redefining Detroit
- Mar 1 · Making Home (Really) Affordable
- Feb 26 · Housing, Transportation, and Workforce Development: A Coordinated Attack
- Feb 26 · Rivlin, SEIU’s Stern, Picked for Debt Commission
- Feb 12 · Cooper Village & Stuyvesant Town: Can’t Quite Walk Away
- Feb 1 · Modifying the Modification Program (HAMP)
- Jan 27 · The Risk In The System Starts to Come Home
- Jan 26 · “Top Of The Pecking Order” for Housing Bubble Blowups
- Jan 25 · Massive NYC Real Estate Deal Collapses
- Jan 22 · Honor Thy Mortgage!
- Jan 14 · HUD Announces NSP2 Grants
- Jan 14 · NSP2 Announcement Coming Soon
- Jan 12 · The Shadow (Inventory) Knows
- Dec 12 · A Small Victory for ACORN?
- Dec 11 · Houses Passes Wall Street Reform Bill; $1 Billion for NSP 3
- Nov 19 · Homeowner, Meet Your Lender
- Nov 17 · Stim Tracking: Let’s Get This Part Right
- Nov 17 · “An Antiforeclosure Plan That Works”
- Nov 13 · ACORN Turns Up The Volume
- Nov 6 · The Right To Rent
- Nov 2 · Housing: Code for Social, Economic, and Racial Integration
- Oct 20 · Another Tired Argument Against ACORN
- Oct 13 · Foreclosure Mitigation Plans Need Work and Need Work Now
- Oct 6 · The “Real Threat” of ACORN
- Oct 6 · If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now: A Cautionary TOD Tale
- Oct 4 · IOC’s Rio Pick Could Be Good News for Chicago
- Sep 30 · Rethinking Rentals
- Sep 25 · ACORN and the Media
- Sep 18 · Roasting a Fire Under ACORN
- Sep 10 · NHC-led Task Force Eyes the Future of the Housing Finance System
- Sep 9 · Van Jones: The Green House, Redux
- Aug 26 · Lion of the Senate
- Aug 12 · …At Your Own Risk
- Aug 6 · Right Wing Taking Cues From Saul Alinsky?
- Jul 31 · The Bicycle Mandate
- Jul 15 · A Rental Option for Homeowners?
- Jul 13 · Urban Policy: Just Getting Started
- Jul 6 · Extra! Major Funding Is Provided By…Congress?
- Jul 2 · Compost Bins on the South Lawn
- Jun 29 · Tracking Job Creation in the Nonprofit Sector
- Jun 18 · Tracking the Recession and the Recovery
- Jun 9 · Seriously Commuting
- Jun 8 · HUD Wants $150M For “Geography of Opportunity”
- Jun 4 · Growing The Community Development Vision
- Jun 4 · TARP for Community Development?
- Jun 4 · Social Innovation and Civic Participation
- Jun 4 · Keep It Local
- Jun 2 · A Squatter’s Discourse
- May 22 · Beware the Myth
- May 19 · What Can 35.5 MPG Change?
- May 15 · I Want to Ride My Bicyle. I Want to Ride It Where I Like
- May 4 · Affordable Housing In Urban Centers Not Enough
- Apr 29 · History of the Housing Market
- Apr 23 · Flint: The Un-Sprawl
- Apr 21 · Donovan Touts Administration’s Housing Policies, Though Acknowledges “Daunting Set of Challenges”
- Apr 17 · Rail Time Enthusiasm
- Apr 15 · How Much Bailout Money Did Your Bank Get?
- Apr 13 · Gonzo Realty
- Apr 10 · Banks Sitting on Foreclosed Homes
- Apr 8 · Foreclosure Holiday at Fan & Fred Comes to an End
- Apr 7 · Great Falls And The Silk City
- Apr 2 · Ease Guidelines=Market Rally
- Apr 2 · Modern Community Development for a Modern Crisis
- Mar 31 · A Rail Line Toward Community Development

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