Housing Decommodified: A global exploration with New York Times writer Francesca Mari
Vienna invites us to envision a world in which homeownership isn’t the only way to secure a certain future — and what our lives might look like as a result.
Vienna invites us to envision a world in which homeownership isn’t the only way to secure a certain future — and what our lives might look like as a result.
Eleven Winery is hosting another Sunday FUNDday in honor of HRB. On that day, the winery will donate 100% of its tasting fees and glass pours and 10% of [...]
Discover the hidden history of segregation in Washington state with the Racial Restrictive Covenants Project. Despite being outlawed, racist restrictions persist in property records across the state.
Turn your passion for affordable housing into local action. This workshop will help you grow your grassroots advocacy skills so that you can be a confident advocate for affordable housing progress.
Architect and accessibility consultant Karen Braitmayer wants us to see the world in all its dimensions and from all its angles, to recognize its limits and possibilities, regardless of how we move, see, hear, and think. To do so requires accessible, intelligent, and enabling architecture.
Join us for our most important fundraiser of the year. It's also our 35th birthday so come ready to support—and celebrate—affordable housing on Bainbridge Island.
Today any efforts to redress racial and ethnic homeownership gaps face a new obstacle: ownership of single-family housing is shifting from families to outside investors. Join Dr. George “Mac” McCarthy to learn about an innovative approach helping communities pull back the curtain on investor activity and tailor interventions with block-by-block precision.
The Bainbridge Public Library, the venue for the In Residence speaker series, closed due to inclement weather. This event was held as a webinar instead. Please click the event title to reach the full listing where you can access a recording.
The first community land trust was born in Albany, GA, during the Civil Rights Movement to provide economic security to tenant farmers and sharecroppers who were being forced off the land when they registered to vote. Today there are over 300 in the US, including one taking shape in Tacoma right now to protect this historically Black community from the impacts of gentrification.
Support the work of creating affordable housing on Bainbridge Island and celebrate the strength and beauty of inclusive community.
Housing Resources Bainbridge (HRB) is hosting a candidate forum focused on affordable housing with the six candidates running in the November general election. Join us for a conversation moderated by HRB’s Public Policy Director Maggie Rich.
Why is there such poverty amid such wealth? Inequitable land ownership and ineffective taxation, according to American economist Henry George (1839-1897). His solution? A tax that would capture rising land value and use it for public benefit. As we find ourselves in another Gilded Age, perhaps it’s time to look to land and Georgism for answers to our housing crisis and rising inequality.