Where the Harris, Trump Campaigns Stand on Housing
Here’s how each candidate has responded to (or ignored) five key housing issues: low supply, accessible homeownership, tenant protections, rent control, and homelessness.
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House Poor: Low-Income Homeowners Struggle in the Shadows
While renters and homebuyers’ challenges dominate the headlines, they aren’t the only ones wrestling with maintaining decent housing.
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How Project 2025 Would Dismantle HUD
The Heritage Foundation’s “conservative playbook” isn’t new, but critics say the latest version’s policies and platforms are more discriminatory and dangerous than in the past.
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How a Dallas Housing Coalition Won Bonds for Affordable Housing
Dallas’s bonds aren’t usually used for housing. A new coalition of advocates changed that.
What Started as Emergency Housing Could Offer a Model for Ending Homelessness in Delaware
Four years ago, New Castle County bought a hotel to provide safe housing for its most vulnerable residents. That property evolved away from purely emergency housing to a very different, more holistic, model of care.
States Are Using This Tool to Keep LIHTC Housing Affordable for Longer
Some state finance agencies are using qualified allocation plans, or QAPs, to extend affordability of LIHTC housing beyond 30 years and increase tenant protections. Here’s a look at where it’s happening.
We’re Approaching Social Housing Wrong
Components common to most U.S. social housing proposals are bound to replicate problems we already have.
Insurance Redlining Is Back—But We Can Fight It
For decades, insurance regulators have resisted requiring the kind of disclosures that are now routine around mortgage lending. But that might change.
Housing Advocates Design a Better Homecoming for People Leaving Incarceration
Programs that offer reentry housing for formerly incarcerated people often replicate jail or prison settings. How can housing providers do better?
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State & Local PolicyHow Policy Can Help Tenants Purchase Their Homes, a Webinar
Laws that give tenants the ability to purchase their own apartments are popping up across the country. In this webinar, a panel of folks who have been reporting on, fighting for, and using these policies offer their perspectives on this powerful anti-displacement tool.
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Community Development FieldHer Story, Her Power in Community Development: A Shelterforce Webinar
Five women from diverse backgrounds who span the country—Missouri, New Mexico, Hawaii, California, and Texas—got together with Shelterforce to talk about the community development field and their work in it.
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LIHTCLIHTC: Are Little Changes Enough? A Shelterforce Webinar
There are reforms and expansions of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit afoot. But some in the field argue that we need to change the tax credit model of financing housing more deeply—or move away from it entirely. Join scholars and organizers as they discuss these issues and explore a path forward.
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DisabilityGetting to More Accessible, Affordable, Inclusive Housing, a Shelterforce Webinar
Four disability advocates and experts explain what’s needed to house Americans with disabilities and some of the work that’s being done to get there.
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