From the Field

As housing and building costs rise, nonprofit developers find themselves with strained resources as pandemic relief dries up and tenants need housing assistance more than ever.

Researchers found that older homeowners in St. Louis averaged $13,000 in unmet home repairs. Here’s how advocates can measure home repair need in their own cities, and why repairs make a difference.

Affordable housing projects should incorporate a range of accessibility features, going above and beyond code requirements.

New federal guidance enables states to use Medicaid dollars to support housing needs.

The ambitious funding campaign took strong cross-movement organizing and the right political moment.

As LA’s Inside Safe program works to transition unhoused Angelenos from hotels into permanent housing, its leaders should look to California’s Project Roomkey for lessons.

Rising property values come with positive community development, but this shift can make neighborhoods inaccessible to low-income renters and fixed-income homeowners.

Getting solid legal protections in place will help tenants stick up for themselves more safely and effectively.

NYC’s land speculators use LLCs to evade legal responsibility while sitting on vacant property.

Never underestimate the power of—and need for—a ground game.

For more than a decade, fair housing advocates in the Beaver State had been looking for ways to connect housing and land use planning to promote the affirmatively furthering fair housing rule. Here’s how Oregon created its own state-level policy, and what’s to come.

Shelterforce recently hosted a conversation about how to fight, and win, against corporate landlords and their extractive business models. Watch the video or read the transcript.