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Increased Danger for Unhoused Trans People as HUD Moves to Limit Equal Shelter Access

May 22, 2025 | Lara Heard

Having access to shelter based on your gender identity is still the law, but HUD won’t enforce it, and is working to remove that protection. The result may be an even greater rise in unsheltered homelessness.

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Photos: In Over a Dozen Cities, Housing Activists Connect HUD Cuts and Local Issues

May 22, 2025 | Miriam Axel-Lute

We share images from six of the cities around the country where members of three national organizing networks took action on May 20 to protest cuts to federal housing funding and lift up local solutions.

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Poem: Art of Protest

May 16, 2025 | LindoYes

Neighborhoods in many cities resist stadium development proposals. This poem reflects on a recent case in Philadelphia. 

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How the Trump Administration Is Weakening the Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws

May 15, 2025 | Jesse Coburn

Starting with cases involving sexual orientation and identity, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is hobbling enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. Said one HUD attorney: “People are really being harmed by it.”

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What’s Happened With Housing Since Trump Came Into Office

May 12, 2025 | Shelterforce

Our running list of major federal housing actions since Jan. 20.

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Supreme Court Considers Landlord Appeal That Could Overturn Tenant Protections

May 7, 2025 | Spencer Bailey

A legal case claiming that COVID-era eviction moratoriums were unconstitutional could spell trouble for tenant protections

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Blocked, Restored, Blocked Again—Housing Funds Are in Legal Limbo

May 6, 2025 | Roshan Abraham

Since Trump took office, the administration has blocked multiple affordable housing funding streams. Here’s a look at which funds have been frozen, which have been reinstated, and which are in the courts.

To represent the Trump administration: The portico of the White House overlooking the South Lawn. An imposing building with columns marking a two-story portico and a balcony on the second floor. Angled staircases on either side lead up to the first floor. On the lawn, trees in leaf frame the portico on either side. The photo has an eerie red tint.
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Trump’s First 100 Days: What’s Happened with Housing?

April 30, 2025 | Miriam Axel-Lute, Lara Heard and Shelby R. King

We’ve compiled a roundup of the major housing and community development–related actions and changes we’ve seen so far in Trump’s second term.

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Art: “The Parade,” Works of Social Commentary by Philly-Based Spiral Q

April 29, 2025 | Lara Heard

Puppets, banners, and more—this Philly-based group helps organizations respond to social issues with art.

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Street Blocks to Alphabet Blocks: The Housing-Education Connection

In this Under the Lens series, we explore the ways the educational justice and housing justice movements overlap, why it’s challenging for these two spheres to work together, and much more. If you prefer listening to the series, you can here.
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The Housing-Education Intersection

November 11, 2024 | Miriam Axel-Lute

Stable, healthy, decent affordable housing sets children up for educational success, and allows schools to be able to focus on what they do best. Shelterforce's Miriam Axel-Lute breaks down the housing-education connection and what you can expect in our new series.
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Education and Housing Advocates: Better Together, But Too Often Apart

November 12, 2024 | Frances Nguyen

The pandemic reminded us how education and housing affect each other. Now some advocates are fighting to make sure no one forgets it.
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To Make Schools Better for Everyone, Connect Them to Community Development

November 14, 2024 | Ryan Good

Schools affect their neighborhoods—if community developers don’t harness that connection for equitable change, someone else will.
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Expanding the Mission: The Community Groups Serving Schools

November 19, 2024 | Padmini Raghunath

Some community development organizations have added education to their traditional focus on housing and economic development. By partnering with local school districts, they’re looking for ways to support families and children in their neighborhoods. How’s it working?
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Why Some Affordable Housing Managers Are Running Education Programs

November 21, 2024 | Zoe Sullivan

Many housing organizations are finding that educational programs are a logical—and valuable—addition to their offerings.

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