Housing

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development can provide $10 million to tenant organizers each year, but the funding has largely gone unspent since the early 2000s. Will that change with a new administration and newly approved HUD secretary?

Advocates point to a bevy of successes in slowing the spread of the virus, but authorities struggle with cost burden.

A new survey of unprecedented scale gives us insight into the diverse range what of inclusionary housing programs look like and which ones are successful.

Emily Benfer talks about what needs to change in our housing and eviction systems—not just now, but once the pandemic is past, the connections between health and housing, and how she came to be a go-to voice on the eviction crisis.

How Boston became the first city to add fair housing to its zoning regulations.

Health care institutions are expanding from funding development to supporting housing justice and tenant rights policy.

The impending collapse of the grotesque Hudson Yards development in Manhattan could be an opportunity for affordable housing.

How we can help elected officials promote genuine community by ensuring inclusive, mixed-income housing.

Housing groups across the country are hoping HUD under the Biden administration will allow the use of Emergency Services Grants to prevent evictions.

Three big, but basic, things that we could do right now to get us much closer to equity in housing.

A counterintuitive argument contends that from a housing justice perspective, the Biden administration’s attack on exclusionary zoning is imprudent.

If we stick with yesterday’s policy and programs in an unprecedented year of crisis, we will leave an unconscionable number of people, families, and communities behind.