Lara Heard

A new report questions a billionaire-founded think tank’s ties to law enforcement and surveillance—and its connections to the Trump administration.

Climate funding from the federal government has become unreliable. But state and local programs in the Northeast offer alternative ways to make homes more efficient for low-income residents and reduce their utility bills.

In Houston, where a Housing First strategy has dramatically decreased the number of people without a place to stay, artists and unhoused residents teamed up to create public art works.

Learn the stories of two communities where Black homes were destroyed, and see the vision community members have of a future Oakland.

What makes a home habitable? What makes habitability laws successful? In this webinar, an organizer in New Orleans and a representative from a nonprofit working with communities across the country affected by vacancy and abandonment share their perspectives.

Alex Strada worked with 300 shelter staff members and residents to create “Public Address.” The project will travel across New York City’s five boroughs.

This Richmond, California, artwork addresses reentry after incarceration, eviction, and more.

Almost every state in the U.S. requires that landlords maintain safe and livable residential units. This is often called a “warranty of habitability.” In some places, there are laws that specify exactly what those requirements are; in others, the standards are less defined.

Whether your home is safe and suitable for healthy living depends on a variety of factors. Shelterforce puts habitability under the lens to show how problems like inadequate heating, water damage, and pest infestations negatively affect your health and further exacerbate the housing crisis.

A new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York highlights crucial moments in the local tenant movement, including rent strikes in the 1920s and the unlivable conditions that drove tenants to action.

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.

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.