Housing

The decision to demolish Wellston’s public housing had already been made when residents and the mayor decided to fight for it, but persistence, luck, and a financing structure with some unusual twists brought them back from the brink.

The president and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance talks with Shelterforce about new challenges in the affordable housing landscape, the role of AI in promoting fair housing, and powerful tools driving the fight for housing justice.

There’s a lot of momentum toward resident-controlled housing. Do you know the three major forms it takes?

Tourist-dependent Clatsop County, population 41,000, has the highest rate of homelessness in Oregon. A project to convert a hotel into housing units for health care workers and the unhoused is a step in the right direction, leaders say.

What were the biggest Shelterforce stories of the year? We count down the top 10 of 2023.

Adding more credits and making tweaks do not actually address some of the major weaknesses of the program. We should be bolder.

As municipalities face post-pandemic fiscal shortages, there’s a longer-term danger lurking behind budget fights.

Legislators visited Vienna to learn about the city’s social housing program. Here’s how they say their states’ housing crises would benefit from similar policies.

The role of ‘heirs property’ in eroding Black families’ wealth

Tenant Opportunity to Purchase laws empower renters to get control when their buildings go up for sale. But in D.C., the hurdles to becoming owners are many, and often insurmountable.

Because so many old buildings are hard to fully retrofit, new homes need to fill in the gap.

Even those who praise the tax credit program and what it has accomplished are concerned that there are so few sizeable alternatives to it.