On October 22, 2020 ISAA hosted CoSA Interim Affordable Housing Director Sara Wamsley and CoSA Housing Commissioner Dr. Paul Furukawa to address the extraordinary increase in rental assistance needs during COVID-19. Sara shared a wealth of helpful information that can be found at this link. ISAA.EvictionsAndEHAP.10.22.2020
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San Antonio’s Housing Policy Framework
“The Housing Vaccine for Healthier Communities”
“Housing’s Effect on Child Development”
San Antonio’s Legacy of Racial and Economic Segregation – A video lecture by Dr. Christine Drennon
San Antonio Study: Income, Housing Inequality Drivers Behind Local Health Outcomes
Jewish Textual Resources on Homelessness, Affordable Housing and Gentrification- Rabbi David Komerofsky
“Ten Strategies to End Chronic Homelessness” – United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
Social Justice Resource Center – An American Catholic resource addressing such issues as economic justice, environment, gun violence, health care, human trafficking, and hunger
“Teaching Tolerance” – A Resource for Educators
“Why Can’t Everyone Have a Home?”
“The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods” – Peter Block & John McKnight
Burchell, Robert; Downs, Anthony. Sprawl Costs: Economic Impacts of Unchecked Development. Island Press, 2005.
Chakrabarti, Vishaan. A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America. Metropolis Book, 2013.
Crandall, George. Fixing Your City: Creating Thriving Neighborhoods and Adapting to a Changing World. Fuller Press, 2019.
Katz, Bruce; Nowak, Jeremy. The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism. The Brookings Institution, 2017.
Sennett, Richard. Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Sharkey, Patrick. Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality. University of Oregon Press, 2013.
The Urban Displacement Project
Managing Gentrification – Urban Land Institute, 2006
Candid Conversations on Racial Justice
Candid Clergy Conversations on Racial JusticeAn effort toward understanding by Rev. Kan’Dace Brock and Rev. Wyndee HolbrookSan Antonio, TX June 2020 After sharing their respective concerns for the care of Black people in the wake of Mr. George Floyd’s...
Read moreA Call to Action
“As long as America postpones justice we stand in the position of having these reoccurrences of violence.” From The Other America, Dr. Martin Luther King, March 10, 1968 The leadership of Interfaith San Antonio Alliance acknowledges we are living...
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ISAA Proclamation WHEREAS, we, who are members of the Interfaith San Antonio Alliance, join together as religious leaders representing a diversity of creeds and practices in order to make a difference in our city, WHEREAS, we are united in...
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Vigil Reflections
by Rabbi Samuel M. Stahl, Emeritus, Temple Beth-El, San Antonio, Texas Every Abrahamic faith community in the past few years has painfully learned that its places of worship are no longer safe and secure sanctuaries. Assailants have no respect...
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