A community land trust turned a difficult site in suburban Seattle into a sustainable, diverse, mixed-ownership-form ...

In Washington state, a group of human services organizations rebuilt their collective office space and added housing.

Enabled by changes in federal law that allow smaller scale investing, community members are becoming co-owners of local real ...

It’s getting tougher for immigrant communities to believe they have rights as renters. Here's how organizers are helping them ...

A new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York highlights crucial moments in the local tenant movement.

New models are bringing more land into community ownership, keeping affordability and community control strong, and serving ...

The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program awards billions in tax credits each year to private market investors and developers who promise to build or preserve affordable housing. But the ...

An event at the Boston Housing Authority’s Mary Ellen McCormack development. Photo by Dot Girl Photos, courtesy of WinnCompanies Tenants’ rights attorney Jay Rose spent four-plus decades waging legal ...

As the U.S. steel industry collapsed in the late 1970s, so did communities in South Chicago and Northwest Indiana that depended on steel and other manufacturing jobs. At the same time, people in these ...

For effective and inclusive community planning, it’s important that community development groups and local governments work closely with residents who will be affected by the proposals and projects ...

In anticipation of a Republican ascension to the White House, The Heritage Foundation—a right-wing think tank pushing regressive, oppressive, often draconian ideas—released a new “Mandate for ...

In this series Shelterforce dives deep into the past, present, and future of tenant organizing. We take a closer look at the components of what many organizers call a tenants bill of rights and give ...