A Portland, Oregon, project aims to turn aging rentals into affordable condos. But that affordability currently rests on ...

Wages are out of step with housing costs. Santa Fe hopes to change that by tying minimum wage increases to HUD’s Fair Market ...

Federal programs and cultural attitudes that helped launch a majority of the large limited-equity co-ops across the nation are long gone, but at a smaller scale, this model of resident-controlled, ...

Several NY municipalities have adopted—and strengthened—a state law that protects tenants from high rent increases and ...

Investigations into the fair housing practices of Boston and Minneapolis contradict race-neutral guidance from the Supreme Court.

As the homelessness and affordable housing crises become a focus of local and national campaigns, we must remember the rich history and critical contributions of homeless organizers. Among the most ...

Los Angeles has imposed an additional tax on luxury home sales to generate millions for housing efforts in the city. Shelterforce checks in on where the money has gone, and what’s to come. While it ...

For more than a century, American reformers have struggled to remedy the problems of poverty in the places where low-income people live. At first, these social improvers could muster only a few ...

It was more than a decade ago when the National Housing Institute published a landmark report on shared-equity homeownership, or resale-restricted, owner-occupied housing for lower-income households ...

Housing may not be on the list of solutions for the maternal and infant mortality crisis. But research—and successful programs—shows that it should be. One piece of the puzzle that may have been ...

When a housing development containing affordable units is proposed, neighbors, other town residents, and public officials often oppose it, claiming that a series of negative outcomes will result. The ...

A long-forgotten battle over a set of row houses in South Philadelphia makes current day NIMBYism look tame. What can housing advocates learn from how they finally got built anyway? On the night of ...