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โ€˜Anti-Displacement Toolโ€™ to Direct City Funding to Projects that Wonโ€™t Price Out Residents

After a years-long, tenant-led effort, Louisville will use a new tool to analyze whether a proposed housing development can meet a neighborhoodโ€™s housing needs and income levels. If it doesnโ€™t, the city wonโ€™t subsidize it.

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Manufactured Crisis: Losing the Nationโ€™s Largest Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing

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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Practitioner Voice

What Makes Rent ‘Fair’

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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The YIGBY Movementโ€”Unlocking Church-Owned Land for Affordable Housing

As the housing crisis deepens, interest in faith-based development is spreading across the country. How do “Yes In Godโ€™s Backyard (YIGBY)” zoning laws work, where are they being implemented or introduced, and what could it mean for communities and churches?

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What Trump’s DEI Orders Could Mean for Housing

The president’s executive orders threaten the funding of a wide range of housing programs in the U.S. Over a dozen federal grantees told us how they’ve been affected, and how they’re planning for an uncertain future.

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Review

Less Visible, But Still Homeless: Workers Who Can’t Afford a Place to Live

A review of Brian Goldstoneโ€™s new book, There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

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