Housing

For some homeowners at risk of losing their home, City of Lakes Community Land Trust has been able to keep them in place by bringing their home into the land trust.

Advocates around the country now have current data on what rent control expansion would do to help low-income, cost-burdened renters.

As housing becomes ever more urgent an issue, California’s model for running a statewide ballot campaign offers insights to organizations around the nation.

Using homeownership as an asset-building mechanism and retirement plan might not be a great thing for our society.

As their city rapidly gentrifies, a group of public housing residents are anxious about potential RAD and Section 18 conversions and battling the public housing authority to resist them.

In Washington state, the dilemma for advocates is how to ask city and county elected officials to significantly increase public resources for housing when their only current choices are regressive tax tools.

Over the past three years, Seattle has led the country in piloting tiny house villages as a response to the homelessness crisis. Here’s how they’re doing it, and the lessons they’re learning.

HUD secretary Ben Carson told the right-leaning outlet Newsmax on Monday night that he intends to leave his cabinet post at the end of the current president’s first term, reported […]

When it comes to whether voters support building more housing as one key strategy for expanding affordability, election outcomes show the case is closed.

With the intensification of weather patterns resulting from climate change, community land trusts perform vital functions that help people recover.

Headrights and redlining were parts of a systemic structure designed to aid some and debilitate others. Their repercussions are still felt.

The Regional Affordable & Fair Housing Roundtable pulled off something that has often been elusive—building enough trust between fair housing advocates and place-based community developers to lead to their signing on to a joint agenda.