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In Barcelona, Rent Control Shows Promise—But Short Term Rentals Limit Progress

April 3, 2025 | Olivia Haber Greenwood

It’s been a year since Catalunya implemented rent control. How well is it working, and why have tenants rallied for more protections?

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There’s a Community Oversight Fight Brewing in the Bronx

April 2, 2025 | Max Parrott

After organizing and giving input for decades, the community around the Kingsbridge Armory might actually see it redeveloped—and they want to continue to have a say in how it goes.

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In New Jersey, Pivotal Affordable Housing Decision Turns 50

March 28, 2025 | Miriam Axel-Lute

The Mount Laurel Doctrine is credited with helping to create 75,000 affordable homes in New Jersey. But, of course, it hasn’t been a simple panacea either.

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Poem: Ode to Jackson Heights

March 26, 2025 | Usman Hameedi

Usman Hameedi, chair of Mass Poetry, captures Jackson Heights in a poem that evokes the sensory delights of a favorite place.

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Six Reasons Why Housing Is a Human Right

March 25, 2025 | Fran Quigley

A law professor explains why housing should be—and someday might be—considered a human right in the United States.

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What’s Going On With the HUD Budget?

March 13, 2025 | Shelby R. King

As the federal government teeters on the edge of a shutdown, housing advocates warn of cuts to affordable housing programs in the remaining months of FY 2025—and say to brace for even deeper threats in FY 2026. From the loss of rental vouchers to slashed homeless assistance grants, what’s at risk now and what should advocates prepare for in the coming budget battles?

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HUD Funding Uncertainty Is Already Changing These People’s Lives

March 11, 2025 | Roshan Abraham

From a disabled supportive housing resident set to lose her apartment to homeless service providers awaiting frozen funds, those affected by HUD cutbacks tell us what’s at stake.

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Mission-Driven or Profit-Driven? Enterprise’s Hidden Role in Mobile Home Park Purchases

March 11, 2025 | Shelby R. King

Despite Enterprise Community Partners’ majority voting stake in Bellwether Enterprise, the nonprofit lender long insisted it couldn’t address its subsidiary commercial mortgage lender’s questionable lending for mobile home park purchases.

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Public Lands Can Help Us Tackle the Housing Crisis in the West

February 14, 2025 | Mark Allison

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 proposed, is not the answer.
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What’s in a Name? Investors vs. Speculators

February 5, 2025 | Miriam Axel-Lute

We don’t often make a clear distinction between investors and speculators, which makes it harder to identify harmful behavior—and to find solutions for it.
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Schools affect their neighborhoods—if community developers don’t harness that connection for equitable change, someone else will.

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