Policy

We’ve tracked down almost three dozen housing-related ballot measures that will be up for vote on Nov. 5. With billions at stake, those measures could be a boon—or a bust—for affordable housing efforts across the U.S.

Climate change is fueling more frequent and extreme disasters, and insurance companies are responding by dropping communities and raising premiums. Here’s what an equitable, reformed property insurance model would look like.

How well do the presidential candidates’ proposals address the growing housing crisis? Housing advocacy groups share their thoughts and criticisms of the plans (or lack thereof).

In recent decades, the Federal Home Loan Bank system has strayed from its original purpose—lending to support housing. We want to change that.

The Supreme Court has overturned the legal precedent Chevron deference. Without the authority to interpret ambiguities in regulations, the critical work of HHS and HUD could suffer.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?