Jacob Folger spent 13 years of his life homeless, starting when he left home at 14 to escape a violent father. He joined the army at 18, and became a handyman when he completed his tour of duty. He ...

The next stop is to make community ownership the rule. To do that we must grow not only the number of projects, but the depth of the ecosystem: the scaffolding of governance, capital, culture, and ...

As insurance companies and lenders increasingly factor climate risk into their strategies, we may see a resurgence of ...

Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley Project grew out of factory closures in the 1980s and has helped to found and sustain six ...

A community land trust in Denver combines community organizing, traditional CLT development, and more unusual roles in an ...

A commonly used billing system can allow landlords to quietly shift building utility costs onto tenants. Tenants say it’s ...

Sometimes disasters open a space for bigger and faster positive change. In Lahaina, Hawai'i, after the devastating fires in ...

Most communities lack a way of collecting real-time data on whether landlords are complying with rules. A rental registry could change that. Being a landlord is a unique line of work. In few sectors ...

Andrew Cuomo’s recent attack on fellow mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for living in a rent stabilized apartment plays on one of the oldest tropes detractors use to criticize the policy: that it ...