Miriam Axel-Lute

What are the root causes of the housing crisis and how can we address them?

Schools could be kept open despite falling enrollment if planners took a wider view of communities.

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.

When tenant protections are popular, opponents know better than to try to repeal them. But they can damage them just the same.

Laws that give tenants the ability to purchase their own apartments are popping up across the country. In this webinar, a panel of folks who have been reporting on, fighting for, and using these policies offer their perspectives on this powerful anti-displacement tool. 

One of the major questions for the affordable housing world in the next couple of years will be how well its various segments come together.

A conversation with Leatrice Moore, executive director of Black Community Developers Group, about the need for BCDG and plans for the future.

Three fascinating research projects take very different approaches to learning more about the sector, but many of the storylines they are surfacing are related.

The community development field is in an interesting and challenging spot right now. Our new Under the Lens series zooms in and explores this moment in the field.

History often feels like a depressing account of the worst things people can do to each other. But a recent book contains reminders that nothing is inevitable, and sometimes people have done better than we’re doing now—even in terms of housing and social equity.

The proposed program could shrink the racial homeownership gap while serving a wide cross-section of people. But it only addresses some of the results of past discrimination.

There are reforms and expansions of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit afoot. But some in the field argue that we need to change the tax credit model of financing housing more deeply—or move away from it entirely. Join scholars and organizers as they discuss these issues and explore a path forward.