Housing

The ambitious funding campaign took strong cross-movement organizing and the right political moment.

In 2019, Los Angeles passed an ordinance banning discrimination against Section 8 voucher holders. But it has never sued to enforce the protection.

The city is growing fast and building a lot of housing. But the new housing isn’t keeping pace with the need, especially for high-income and extremely low-income earners.

As LA’s Inside Safe program works to transition unhoused Angelenos from hotels into permanent housing, its leaders should look to California’s Project Roomkey for lessons.

HomeVestors of America, the self-proclaimed “largest homebuyer in the U.S.,” trains its nearly 1,150 franchisees to zero in on homeowners’ desperation.

A new map reveals how much land in New York City is being wasted by city police—often sitting vacant, rather than serving the public good.

Rising property values come with positive community development, but this shift can make neighborhoods inaccessible to low-income renters and fixed-income homeowners.

Getting solid legal protections in place will help tenants stick up for themselves more safely and effectively.

An Ohio land bank adds to its developing power through a nonprofit land trust.

Landmark lawsuits in D.C., New York, and California make source of income discrimination risky for landlords. 

A program to stabilize residents whose subsidized housing is disrupted has also been used to support other highly vulnerable residents, but those uses are a matter of controversy.

Amid widespread rent increases, directing public land to affordable housing could allow people to stay in their communities, as well as reduce commutes and employee turnover.