Housing

Four scalable land and housing models can provide justice, and homes, for our communities. But we need support to protect them from market pressure.

Despite having a housing voucher—a legal source of income—a Buffalo, New York, woman could not find a landlord who would rent out their property to her.

Across the U.S., sexual harassment at the hands of landlords, property managers, and others in the housing industry can drive poor women and their children into homelessness. It is a problem badly understood and virtually unstudied.

Sexual harassment is a topic that’s not often addressed in the community development field, but it should be.

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In a court division where a family can lose their home after a two-minute trial and only 12 percent of tenants have lawyers, Cook County’s lack of eviction court transcripts—with no court reporters or digital recording equipment since 2004—has serious repercussions for tenants.

Serial Eviction Filings in Atlanta | Rent Control for Seniors | HUD Wants Examples of Housing Discrimination | Worker-Owned Cooperative Triples Workforce

An HIA that focused on Irish Traveller housing programs proves successful because it empowered the population.

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What if the future of shared equity homeownership was not dependent on government subsidies? Vivacité – Société immobilière solidaire, a Quebec-based non-profit organization, designed a shared equity program based on a social economy model that leverages impact investors to ensure perpetual affordability and scales its impact.

North Minneapolis residents fight to take control of their buildings after city administrator finds homes to be uninhabitable.

Here’s a list of possible translations to the statement, “We can’t build our way out of the housing crisis,” and a handy response to each.