Here's what happens when leaders loosen zoning permitting and invest in community-scale development at the same time.

Development should come with affordability. Here's the case for inclusionary housing, and why opponents aren't seeing the ...

We must always remember that New Orleans was suffering from an economic and political disaster long before Hurricane Katrina hit. “Welcome to the Third World!” More than one person said this to me ...

Americans are struggling more than ever to find and maintain housing they can afford. The climate crisis is only making things worse. In this series, Shelterforce takes a deeper look at the ...

A tenant opportunity to purchase act (TOPA) is a policy that gives tenants some specific rights when their building goes up for sale. Learn what it covers and what it doesn’t in this video. When a ...

Years ago, officials in dozens of cities and states showed interest in passing legislation that required landlords to accept alternatives to the traditional lump-sum security deposit. Today, much of ...

After learning it was one of the city’s most prolific evictors, a for-profit affordable housing provider created a tenant retention program that’s being touted as a model for other developers. An ...

A year after she left Chicago’s notorious Robert Taylor Homes public housing development, 30-year-old Lee-Lee Henderson said she was ready to return. “I’d rather live in Robert Taylor,” she answered ...

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 ...

Some say yes. But simply making it easier to build will not reach those who are unhoused. It takes some serious chutzpah to assert that the answer to homelessness is obvious, as a piece published ...