Policy

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

The complicated relationship between the Davis-Bacon Act, Black construction workers, and Black-owned construction businesses in Boston.

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.

A new book explores the history, impact, and policy solutions to racial segregation.

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

The wealth gap is probably best illustrated in the way our country has, and has not, provided access to the single most important determinant of wealth for the majority of people in the United States—home and land ownership.

A pair of funds backed by philanthropic heavy hitters tries to take advantage of a moment when all eyes are on housing.

CDFIs across the country were trying to do what they could to ease the effects of the recent government shutdown. Here is just a partial list.

Andrea Gibbons’ City of Segregation shows why empowering capitalist processes and actors is the last thing we should do to fight gentrification.

In the housing world, narrative plays an important role in defining whose voice gets heard, how issues are framed, and what solutions are developed. This is especially true in Minnesota.

News from—and affecting—the community development world. This week: Shockwaves from the government shutdown, Backlash over NJ Democrat power grab, Alternative credit scoring models, A HUD public housing publicity stunt?, Cashless establishments are unfair, more…