An enduring vision for many people across the country is to collectively own local land and buildings, thus controlling how those properties are used and who benefits from them. It’s a way for people ...

The results benefit residents, neighbors, and the organizations themselves. Across the country, the need for good quality, affordable housing is growing. As communities respond with large-scale ...

A lease agreement with the city of Sacramento allowed encampment residents to stay indefinitely while they sought permanent housing. When the agreement fell apart, the residents, many of whom are ...

The U.S. owns more than 650 million acres of public lands, and it has the power to sell or lease limited parcels for affordable housing. But mass disposal of public lands, as some legislators have ...

Housing problems like mildew, lead, unheated homes, and more plague low-income homeowners and renters alike—and many of these issues are only growing with time. What laws have housing advocates pushed ...

A HUD rule that would allow housing agencies and subsidized housing owners to impose work requirements and time limits has ...

A New York art and architecture exhibition offers a vision of renewable public power. At the Center for Architecture in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, two teams are presenting projects under the ...

An enduring vision for many people across the country is to collectively own local land and buildings, thus controlling how those properties are used and who benefits from them. It’s a way for people ...

Affordable housing construction finance reflects market norms, but its track record shows it’s far less risky than conventional market-rate housing loans. While lower default rates should lead to ...

A two-year rent freeze, affecting about 1 million rent-stabilized apartments in New York, was just approved. Before the freeze passed, landlords said their buildings wouldn’t survive it. But recent ...

Home is no longer a safe space for thousands of families who live with someone who's undocumented. Caught between housing assistance and ICE surveillance, many are forced to be silent—or self-evict.

A call for research proposals on reducing housing demand suggests a radical and troubling shift that may be coming in housing policy. Among the many divisions of the U.S. Department of Housing and ...