Housing

There’s a growing number of manufactured housing owners who are joining together to buy their mobile home parks. We chat with residents, advocates, and technical assistance providers about the ins and outs of buying land together.

We’ve tracked down almost three dozen housing-related ballot measures that will be up for vote on Nov. 5. With billions at stake, those measures could be a boon—or a bust—for affordable housing efforts across the U.S.

In Sweden, almost one-quarter of all housing is in co-ops. Here are some lessons for this mixed-income housing model.

Climate change is fueling more frequent and extreme disasters, and insurance companies are responding by dropping communities and raising premiums. Here’s what an equitable, reformed property insurance model would look like.

How well do the presidential candidates’ proposals address the growing housing crisis? Housing advocacy groups share their thoughts and criticisms of the plans (or lack thereof).

Shelterforce’s CEO and Publisher Schlonn Hawkins chats with the executive director of FamilyWorks Seattle.

In recent decades, the Federal Home Loan Bank system has strayed from its original purpose—lending to support housing. We want to change that.

Here’s how each candidate has responded to (or ignored) five key housing issues: low supply, accessible homeownership, tenant protections, rent control, and homelessness.

While renters and homebuyers’ challenges dominate the headlines, they aren’t the only ones wrestling with maintaining decent housing.

Dallas’s bonds aren’t usually used for housing. A new coalition of advocates changed that.

Four years ago, New Castle County bought a hotel to provide safe housing for its most vulnerable residents. That property evolved away from purely emergency housing to a very different, more holistic, model of care.

Components common to most U.S. social housing proposals are bound to replicate problems we already have.