Montclair / New Jersey / United States
About Shelterforce Shelterforce is the nations oldest continually published housing and community development magazine. For more than three decades, Shelterforce has been a primary forum for organizers, activists, and advocates in the affordable-housing and neighborhood revitalization movements. Shelterforce is published by the National Housing Institute, an independent nonprofit organization that examines the issues causing the crisis in housing and community in America. These issues include poverty and racism, disinvestment and lack of employment, safety, education, and breakdown of the social fabric. NHI examines how these and other factors affect people as they try to build safe, viable neighborhoods. NHI searches for what does and does not work in community-building. In our 30-plus years of existence, Shelterforce has become the leading publication for community-building professionals and other stakeholders in creating vibrant communities. We are dedicated to providing the tools ( information, analysis, resources ) for advocates, activists, and community members to organize their communities, rebuild their neighborhoods, and create decent housing and living-wage jobs for the families who live there. In 1975, Shelterforce began as a how-to publication for tenant activists. Shelterforce helped tenants, tenant organizers, and tenant advocates ( e.g. legal aid lawyers ) learn how to be more effective in securing tenants rights to safe, decent homes.
