Opinion

A law professor explains why housing should be—and someday might be—considered a human right in the United States.

The U.S. owns more than 650 million acres of public lands, and it has the power to sell or lease limited parcels for affordable housing. But mass disposal of public lands, as some legislators have proposed, is not the answer.

We don’t often make a clear distinction between investors and speculators, which makes it harder to identify harmful behavior—and to find solutions for it.

Schools affect their neighborhoods—if community developers don’t harness that connection for equitable change, someone else will.

In Sweden, almost one-quarter of all housing is in co-ops. Here are some lessons for this mixed-income housing model.

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.

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.

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

For decades, insurance regulators have resisted requiring the kind of disclosures that are now routine around mortgage lending. But that might change.

Neighborhood-scale community development organizations have community connections and trust that can’t be replicated by larger organizations, and they should be valued as the foundation of the field.

Home Owners’ Loan Corporation maps have long been blamed for racial inequities in today’s Black neighborhoods, but recent research shows that’s misleading.