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Where the Harris, Trump Campaigns Stand on Housing

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

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Reported Article

How Project 2025 Would Dismantle HUD

The Heritage Foundation’s “conservative playbook” isn’t new, but critics say the latest version’s policies and platforms are more discriminatory and dangerous than in the past.

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Practitioner Voice

How a Dallas Housing Coalition Won Bonds for Affordable Housing

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

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Reported Article

States Are Using This Tool to Keep LIHTC Housing Affordable for Longer

Some state finance agencies are using qualified allocation plans, or QAPs, to extend affordability of LIHTC housing beyond 30 years and increase tenant protections. Here’s a look at where it’s happening.

Opinion

We’re Approaching Social Housing Wrong

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

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Reported Article

Housing Equity in Limbo—Why Hasn’t Biden Finalized an Update to AFFH?

Last year it seemed like a new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule was imminent, but it never happened. And now it’s late enough in the term that if it were finalized, next year’s Congress could invalidate it.

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Reported Article

Will This Resident Group Get Full Control of the Complex They Helped Fix?

For decades, a group of Cambodian refugees worked to improve and upgrade their Stockton, California, affordable housing complex. While they technically own half of the property, they’re still waiting for HUD to approve their full ownership. Why hasn’t it happened yet?

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Reported Article

The Fight Continues Against Criminalization of Homelessness

Though disappointed in the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing sleeping bans, homeless advocates are energized and organizing around other solutions.

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Reported Article

They Had No Heat for Four Months. A New Law Let Them Sue.

In New York state, tenants can now take landlords to court to force repairs and get damages, without withholding rent first. Here’s how one of the first tests of the new law worked.

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Opinion

Retreating From the Coasts Makes Sense, But Our Current Approach Isn’t Working

As flooding, sea level rise, fires, and other climate impacts increase, we’ll need to move about 20 million Americans by 2100. Here’s how we can rethink managed retreat to get ahead of the rising tides.

Opinion

Winning Tenant Protections Isn’t Enough

When tenant protections are popular, opponents know better than to try to repeal them. But they can damage them just the same.

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Reported Article

In Upstate New York, the Fight for Good Cause Continues

Ithaca became the latest city to opt into New York’s new Good Cause Eviction Law. What are tenant organizers doing to make the law work better for their communities?