Shelterforce

As housing becomes ever more urgent an issue, California's model for running a statewide ballot campaign offers insights to organizations around the nation.

While individual-level interventions are beneficial, characterizing them as efforts to address social determinants of health conveys a false sense of progress.

In years past, the community development field imagined how to change the world. So, what would it take to change anew? Nancy O. Andrews argues that it takes asking ourselves the right questions.

Using homeownership as an asset-building mechanism and retirement plan might not be a great thing for our society.

Several national organizations in the community development field have experienced transitions from white leadership to people of color.

Because recent advocacy has succeeded in achieving a change in government accounting standards that led many cities and states to disclose the total costs of the tax abatements they provided last year for the very first time, we now are gaining a better sense of just how much these abatements take away from education and other public services.

A coalition's comprehensive study on the Detroit region’s water ills also acts as a road map to organizers' work around water justice.

Our talk with Radhika Fox, the CEO of the US Water Alliance, about water justice and ways to build stronger communities.

As their city rapidly gentrifies, a group of public housing residents are anxious about potential RAD and Section 18 conversions and battling the public housing authority to resist them.

In Washington state, the dilemma for advocates is how to ask city and county elected officials to significantly increase public resources for housing when their only current choices are regressive tax tools.