Policy

Long, long ago, children, in 1981, Ronald Reagan became President of the United States and expanded the military budget by 43 percent over what...

Americans are a people hopelessly divided by culture wars and fundamental disagreements about the role and appropriate size of government....

A review of HUD's Cityscape issue, which is devoted to reviews and studies of the Community Reinvestment Act at its 40th anniversary.

Housing discrimination continues to plague the market, as does the myth that the housing crisis resulted from extending homeownership and home mortgage credit to historically underserved groups: minority families. Even with the Obama administration's Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan and, within that, the Making Home Affordable program, minority groups continue to suffer ongoing discrimination and fair housing violations.

The Bipartisan Policy Center's Housing Commission released its report, Housing America's Future, on housing policy this morning. ...

The power and process of boards that take control of a city or territory's finances is becoming more generalized, although they affect local democracy, impose austerity measures without controls, and lack mechanisms to evaluate their efficiency.

A New York State commission established by Governor Eliot Spitzer recently recommended ways to lower property taxes, which are putting a world of hurt...

Nicolas P. Retsinas, a senior lecturer in real estate at the Harvard Business School and director emeritus of Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, talks with Shelterforce about his long service in the housing field.

As the water rose in his Cedar Rapids home, Frank refused to leave, even when a FEMA boat pulled up to his porch. FEMA...

Affordable housing already exists near transit, but without action it will be lost.

All too often, we hear how sprawl development continues to eat up the last remaining open spaces across New Jersey,...

The headlines tell the story: “Half of all renters can’t afford the rent.” “Renters, get ready to take it...

Long used to maintain segregationist and discriminatory policy, aldermanic prerogative is now being wielded in a more inclusive way.

How communities of color, using health and jobs as rallying cries, took on Big Oil -- and won!

From AFP today: The 700-billion dollar Wall Street bailout plan, put together last week by the U.S. administration, would allow the U.S .Treasury to sell...

Election Day’s over, we’ve already blown past “Yes We Can!” to “Yes We Did!” Now we’re on to watching President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team and...

It's official, at least it is to you. In order to get housing on the agenda this election cycle,...

Let's raise the standard deduction and lower tax rates to give everyone a tax cut! It should not surprise you that since this is a...

Metropolitanism, or regionalism, was back in the news this morning as Barack Obama trumpeted the concept at the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference...

Those of us who work in regulated industries, such as banking institutions and credit unions, often succumb to the temptation to see government regulators...