HUD’s recent efforts to gut Housing First have sought to apply the logic from the addiction recovery industry to homelessness funding. Applying Housing First’s autonomy-centered logic to addiction ...

The for-profit subsidiary had been pressed over lending to corporate buyers of manufactured home parks. The sale will seed an ...

Whether through diversified funds or direct ownership of retail space, community ownership tools build wealth and shape local ...

In Los Angeles, as people organized in response to wildfires and ICE raids, a new group of tenant supporters—The Rent Brigade ...

A proposal from two federal banking regulators would reduce both the scale and scope of federal Community Reinvestment Act oversight. Here’s what could change and how communities can respond. Comments ...

In recent years, Los Angeles and Seattle voters have approved major taxes to boost affordable housing using a “social housing” approach. But they offer two very different visions of what that means.

Tenants in Cleveland's Shaker Square neighborhood, along with many other allies, fought their neglectful corporate landlord, and won. However, it took so long, half the residents were displaced.

While chaos reigns at the federal level, it’s up to states and local governments to creatively hold the line, fill the gaps, and figure out new ways forward. Drawing on examples from around the ...

Longer lifespans, evolving household structures, and growing care needs are changing what people need from their homes and communities. In this Under the Lens series, Shelterforce examines what it ...

As more older adults face housing instability, aging and homelessness service providers are building partnerships to fill the gaps between two systems that have long operated separately. Longer ...

When Chicago tenants on rent strike agreed to stop speaking publicly about their landlord as part of settling their eviction cases, they honored the agreement. They never dreamed the landlord's ...