From the Field
Shelterforce has always been driven by the voices of the people in the housing field. From the Field pieces are neither reported journalism nor standard opinion pieces, but articles that share knowledge, insight, lessons learned, or examples from people who work, organize, or volunteer in the field.
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How HUD Is Seeking to Make Fighting Housing Discrimination Even Harder
Fair housing law has never been easy to enforce. But HUD's proposal to eliminate the use of disparate impact analysis will remove another crucial tool for doing so.
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A New Perspective on Housing Tenure
Those of us who work in housing and housing policy know how complicated housing tenure can be. The most common forms of tenure, which describes the legal status under which […]
Who, Why, and How Communities Oppose Affordable Housing
The results of a survey of affordable housing developers in New York State and their experiences with communities that oppose affordable housing.
NIMBY: Where, When, And to Which Developers It Happens
Looking at how affordable housing developers deal with community opposition, we tackle the issue of the timing of opposition and developer responses.
New York State’s Affordable Housing Developers: What They Do, How They Do It
In the first part of our series, we ask affordable housing developers in NYC how they deal with community opposition and how they overcome it.
A City Seen
In 2002, the trustees of the George Gund Foundation gave 150 black-and-white photographs of Cleveland to the Cleveland Museum of Art as part of the museum’s 50th anniversary celebration. These […]