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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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DOGE Undermines Anti-Discrimination Protections in Housing With More Cuts

March 20, 2025 | Roshan Abraham

HUD is attempting to withdraw more than half of its grants to the private organizations that educate about and enforce housing-related anti-discrimination laws.

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How We Organized to Keep Mobile Home Park Residents in Their Homes

March 19, 2025 | Emily Dreyfus

After residents got notice that their mobile home park was going up for sale, advocates made use of a Virginia law that required the owners to consider a resident-supported counteroffer.

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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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Trump, Homelessness, and the Road Ahead, a Webinar

March 7, 2025 | Jesse Rabinowitz

The Trump administration’s policies are putting homelessness services at risk. How can housing advocates respond to those threats?

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‘Anti-Displacement Tool’ to Direct City Funding to Projects that Won’t Price Out Residents

March 6, 2025 | Roshan Abraham

After a years-long, tenant-led effort, Louisville will use a new tool to analyze whether a proposed housing development can meet a neighborhood’s housing needs and income levels. If it doesn’t, the city won’t subsidize it.

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Manufactured Crisis: Losing the Nation’s Largest Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing

March 4, 2025 | Shelby R. King

Manufactured housing communities have long been an affordable housing option for millions of people living in the U.S., but that affordability is disappearing rapidly. How did we get here?

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What Makes Rent ‘Fair’

February 28, 2025 | Susanne Schindler and Samuel Stein

Should monthly charges be pegged to the cost of financing, developing, and operating housing, or to household income? Or are there other ways to design how rent is calculated?

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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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