Company Profile

Company Overview

Shelterforce is the nation’s leading source of reporting on the affordable housing and community development field. Launched in 1975, Shelterforce is a digital publication with a growing and devoted readership. A nonprofit 501(c)3 independent media organization, Shelterforce has a mission to realize a society where everyone is able to live in a healthy, just community with access to sufficient opportunity to realize their potential. Shelterforce supports those working toward healthy, just communities by publishing independent content that informs them, challenges them, connects them, inspires them, and advocates for their work to others.

Shelterforce has a co-leadership team consisting of a CEO/Publisher and a CEO/Editor-in-Chief. The CEO/Editor-in-Chief is responsible for editorial decisions and content creation for Shelterforce, while the CEO/Publisher is responsible for strategic growth of resources and audiences. As co-leaders, these positions are complimentary and collaborate fully to set organizational vision and oversee governance and management.

Shelterforce is supported predominantly by grants but also by advertising and individual contributions. Our readers primarily come from the worlds of affordable housing, community organizing and planning, and community economic development, and they include community leaders, racial and social justice housing advocates, nonprofit staff, policymakers, researchers, and professionals with a wide range of interests, from racial equity to housing to arts and culture to health care. But they are all working in some way to create healthy, just communities.

Shelterforce began as a media organization and remains so. Our website, on which we publish new content almost daily, has about 62,000 page views a month. Our weekly e-newsletter has over 12,000 subscribers and has an open rate of 35+ percent. Shelterforce has two special desks—one focused on health and one focused on arts, culture, and community development.

Shelterforce has a small, diverse, talented staff composed of six people who are devoted to the mission and deliver excellent and effective journalism. The culture is inclusive, family-friendly, creative, and results-focused, and it values and supports a healthy work/life balance. Currently, three individuals work in the Montclair, NJ, office, and others are remote. While location may be flexible, it is critical that the CEO/Publisher is able to travel regularly to attend conferences and meet with funders, staff, and external partners, especially in New York and Washington DC.

For more information on Shelterforce, see shelterforce.org.