Matthew Brian Hersh
Matthew Brian Hersh is a New Jersey native who joined Shelterforce magazine in April 2008 as associate editor. For five years prior to coming to Shelterforce, he was editor of a central New Jersey newspaper and is a longtime freelance writer working mostly in the nonprofit sector. A graduate of Rutgers University, Matthew has worked for the New Jersey State Legislature and was communications director for a nonprofit transportation organization. He was named NHI/Shelterforce senior editor in April 2009. E-mail Matthew at mhersh@nhi.org.
Matthew’s views do not necessarily reflect those of the National Housing Institute.
POSTS ON ROOFLINES
- 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
- Mar 25 · Read All About It…While You Can
- Mar 24 · National Train Day (Trainiacs Unite!)
- Mar 20 · Going Mainstream With the Obama Vegetable Garden
- Mar 18 · Just Because His Sleeves Are Rolled Up, It Doesn’t Mean He Means Business
- Mar 16 · NLIHC Budget Chart Outlines HUD Appropriations
- Mar 13 · Donovan Eyes Change to Mortgage Credit System; Bringing HUD to the Forefront
- Mar 12 · Rep. Frank Promises an “Improved” Subprime Bill
- Mar 10 · NJ’s COAH: Finding Common (and Vacant) Ground
- Mar 9 · ACORN’s Home Defenders
- Mar 6 · Blog-Heavy, Link-Heavy, (and Some) Breaking News
- Mar 6 · New Regulations for Loan Modification and Refinance
- Mar 5 · Finally Touching That Third Rail?
- Mar 5 · Making a Profit on the Shards of a Glass Bubble
- Mar 3 · “Ethical Lenders” Employ a Tried and True Method: Long-term, Fixed-rate Loans
- Feb 26 · Who’s Going to Report the News?
- Feb 25 · Rethinking Home Mortgage Deductions
- Feb 19 · Does Obama’s Plan Go Far Enough?
- Feb 18 · Obama’s Foreclosure Plan: Just the Facts
- Feb 11 · Task Force Calls for $4 Billion in NSP Funding
- Feb 10 · The Financial Stability Plan
- Feb 8 · Latest Simulus Bill Draft
- Feb 6 · NSP Funding Gets “Compromised”
- Feb 5 · The Stimulus Package and Smart Growth
- Feb 3 · Let’s Get Serious Here
- Feb 3 · Vacant Storefronts: They’re Not Just For Ghost Towns Anymore
- Jan 26 · A Sobering Economic Roundup
- Jan 21 · Watching History On The Big Screen
- Jan 17 · All Aboard, America
- Jan 14 · Tough Economy, Slashed Services
- Jan 11 · The Great Detroit Charrette?
- Jan 7 · Yes, Virginia, There Is A City Planner
- Dec 23 · The Felt Factor
- Dec 16 · Remaking HUD
- Dec 11 · Questioning the Bailout
- Nov 29 · Food Banks: Another Crisis Casualty?
- Nov 22 · Talk About Aging In Place…
- Nov 20 · Gloomy Outlook for Nonprofits
- Nov 17 · What We Talk About When We Talk About…Voting Machines
- Nov 11 · The Urban (Policy) President?
- Nov 8 · Bagging the Big Apple
- Oct 30 · DOJ Passes on Ohio
- Oct 28 · It’s The Great Election, Charlie Brown
- Oct 22 · The “What If” Scenario
- Oct 15 · In the Nation’s Service
- Oct 15 · Affordable Housing and the Financial Crisis
- Oct 14 · Not Your Clinton’s Foreclosure Holiday
- Oct 14 · McCain Hearts ACORN
- Oct 9 · Mortgage Buyout Plan Changes by the Hour
- Oct 6 · Got a House? Cast Your Vote.
- Oct 3 · House Passes Bailout: Let The Market Soar!
- Sep 26 · DOJ Keeps An Eye On Michigan
- Sep 25 · Will Financial Crisis Lead to Hard Times for Nonprofits?
- Sep 22 · Affordable Housing as an “Unfunded Mandate”
- Sep 18 · Discouraging the Voter
- Sep 11 · Is It Just a Foreclosure Holiday?
- Sep 10 · What Do You Make of the Fannie/Freddie Takeover?
- Sep 4 · Organizing a Counterattack
- Aug 23 · Obama-Biden: What Does It Mean?
- Aug 21 · Wait: How Many Houses DO I Have?
- Aug 4 · With Rising Property Taxes, Should Non-Profits Now Pay Their “Fair Share”?
- Jul 30 · The Mess In Texas (Houston: We Have a Recycling Problem)
- Jul 23 · The Wave that Follows The Atlantic
- Jul 21 · It’s an Affordable Housing Victory, But How Do We Win Over the Towns?
- Jul 11 · Rangel’s Wrangle with Rent Control
- Jul 8 · In New Jersey’s Hub City, A Push to Change Government Gets Big Government Resistance
- Jul 1 · The COAH Bluff, the Midas Touch, and New Jersey’s Fight for Affordable Housing
- Jun 25 · One Candidate Drops Out of Public Finance, Another Wishes He Could
- Jun 20 · Sounding the Death Knell for Public Financing, Or a New Era of Grass-roots Fund-Raising?
- Jun 19 · A Big Easy Comparison, But How Similar?
- Jun 19 · Crackdown Rocks Real-Estate Industry
- Jun 15 · The Russert Factor
- Jun 12 · So It’s Come to This?
- Jun 10 · Awarded for Smart Growth
- Jun 3 · It’s Your Moment Sen. Obama (It’s Ours, Too)
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