Housing

Inadequate income, lack of affordable housing and demanding caretaking responsibilities force many women to live in substandard housing. Domestic violence and poor credit ratings are other factors that undermine housing options for women and girls. The Sub-Prime mortgage crisis has hit low-income women and people of color particularly hard, with long-range implications for their housing opportunities. Affordable, accessible, quality housing is essential, not only for the economic security of women and their families but for their health and safety as well.

African Leaders Strategize to Enhance Women's Safety, Influence

Teaser:

In Johannesburg last week nearly 300 rights advocates and politicians brainstormed for three days about how to make governments in 10 countries of southern Africa friendlier to women. Gender Links, a nongovernmental organization based in Johannesburg, planned the summit with the financial help of donors and partners. The group expected about 120 delegates; 273 showed up. The three-day convention drew women and men who presented practical strategies and programs that have improved women's influence, safety, housing and education.

Source:

Women's eNews

URL:

http://www.womensenews.org/story/the-world/100326/local-african-leaders-strategize-enhance-safety?page=0,0

Date:

March 28, 2010

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Few Safety Nets for U.S. Women of Color

Teaser:

African American women were disproportionately impacted by the subprime and housing crisis in the United States that triggered the longer-term global meltdown, and they continue to be marginalised in the ever more precarious U.S. job market.

Editorial:

African American women "have the highest labour force participation rate of all women and are roughly just as likely as their male counterparts to be homeowners," thus making them pillars of household stability, Avis Jones-DeWeever, research director at the United Council of Negro Women and affiliated scholar at the Institute for Women's Policy Research, told IPS.

Combined with the fact that "they are more likely to earn less than both white men and women, have fewer assets and are five times more likely than men to receive subprime loans," financial safety nets for African American women in the current economic crisis are sparse if not non-existent.

Source:

IPS

URL:

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45939

Date:

March 3, 2009

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The Recession Brings Higher Unemployment to Unmarried Women

Teaser:

The high unemployment of unmarried women, and particularly the 1.3 million unemployed female heads of household who are primary breadwinners for their families, is devastating to their financial circumstances and standard of living.

Source:

Center for American Progress

URL:

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/11/employment_decline.html

Date:

November 6, 2009

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Women of Color Slammed by Economic Crisis

Teaser:

We must make sure that all economic recovery efforts move us to an economy that addresses our nation’s long-standing imbalances and disparities.

Source:

AlterNet

URL:

http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/145818/women_of_color_slammed_by_economic_crisis_--_we_must_strengthen_basic_safety_nets

Date:

February 25, 2010

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Onus of eviction falls heavier on poor black women

Teaser:

Eviction is a particular burden on low-income black women, often single mothers, who are vulnerable to losing their homes because their wages or public benefits have not kept up with the cost of housing.

Source:

New York Times

URL:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/us/19evict.html

Date:

February 18, 2010

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Study Shows Link Between Segregation and Subprime Loans

Submitted by jmumbey on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 3:57pm

Member Organization:

Women of Color Policy Network

NCRW Policy Brief: Economic Security

Submitted by Kyla Bender-Baird on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 1:40pm

To overcome economic hardship, women need opportunities to learn new skills and earn fair wages in order to support themselves and their families and lead healthy and productive lives. Women’s advancement and well-being also depend on access to basic services and safety nets, such as paid sick leave, affordable child care and elder care, portable health care, adequate housing and secure retirements, including social security.

Attachment:

Economic Security.pdf

Gender Equality as Smart Economics: First Year Progress Report (January 2007- January 2008)

Submitted by afiorino on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 5:16pm

This report provides the first update of Gender Equality as Smart Economics: A World
Bank Group Gender Action Plan (GAP), a year after implementation began in January
2007. The plan commits the Bank Group to ‘do more’ to help achieve gender equality by
more fully utilizing its comparative advantage in the economic sectors and in analytical
work.
The plan’s objective is to advance women’s economic empowerment in Bank client
countries to promote shared growth and accelerate implementation of MDG3. It does so
by making markets work for women (at the policy level) and empowering women to
compete in markets (at the individual level), focusing on four key markets: land, labor,
agriculture, and finance, and on infrastructure, which underpins access to all markets. It
has a four-year time frame (FY07-FY11) and four main activities or ‘windows:’

URL:

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGENDER/Resources/GAPProgressReportFeb26_2008.pdf

NCRW Fact Sheet: Women, Homeownership, and Sub-Prime Mortgages--A Need for Fair Lending Practices

Submitted by Kyla Bender-Baird on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 4:00pm

Sub-prime mortgages threaten the economic security of women and their families. They also impede their ability to build wealth through home ownership.

Attachment:

Subprime mortgages.pdf

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