Policy

For-profit housing cannot meet most renters’ needs, and that’s by design. So when you talk about market-rate construction and displacement, use the following literature review as reference.

Before we celebrate its resurgence as a national political issue, and certainly before we set out to solve for housing injustice, we should understand why America has overlooked housing.

Diving into the issue of exclusionary practices that have exacerbated the housing crisis and offering some policy solutions.

Senator Elizabeth Warren and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency have offered contrasting visions for the future of CRA. How do they differ, and what would the implications for historically disinvested communities be?

There is much work to be done around housing and equitable development, but the solution is not simply to move people around. A key challenge is creating real choice.

Sen. Warren’s proposed bill represents the kind of holistic housing strategy we need from the federal government in facilitating affordable housing for all Americans in all cities and towns who have been left out, locked out, or exploited over decades by the national housing market. 

Rehabbing this Far Rockaway housing complex is a huge undertaking. NYCHA is betting that the RAD program can make it happen, and it seems to be paying off.

News from—and affecting—the community development world. This week: a new kind of library lending, Amazon’s wage raise, life for Philadelphia’s poor, bipartisan work on the opioid epidemic, and more.

How different would cities look and how different would people’s lives be if those with the power to set policy and invest resources prioritized the most vulnerable residents and the neighborhoods they live in?

Every once in a while someone says: “What would it look like if we came together and were united on a federal policy for housing?” It seems like the answer to “who would actually do it?” might currently be Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Local elected officials are having to re-examine the risks and rewards of making housing and housing affordability a political priority. Could one mayor’s bold steps on housing policy be a national bellwether?

We should have known better. The Kerner Commission taught us that race matters most, not place. But it also embedded in our psyches the equation of Black = central city and the similarly absolute equation of white = suburbs.