Opinion

Lessons for affordable housing developers from the trenches.

How do you address a history of anti-Asian housing discrimination? Not by destroying Asian American communities.

Did we want to bail out corporate landlords or help renters? Because we’re doing the former.

We don’t really have a housing assistance system. We have hundreds of them. And that’s part of why it’s so hard to get rent relief out.

We must continue studying and fighting gentrification, rather than abandon the concept altogether.

At one time, the Democratic Party stood for policies that successfully addressed the country’s chronic housing crisis. What changed, and why?

Beyond the immediate need to stop mass evictions, there is much more that state and local officials can do to facilitate housing stability in a longer-term transition out of the pandemic emergency. The time for those critical measures is now.

The one constant in all community ownership strategies should be a centering of a particular community’s needs and goals.

Congress has an opportunity it must not squander to acknowledge the racial inequity built into our failing infrastructure and put into operation the promise of equity in Biden’s infrastructure plans.

As coordinated entry systems try to match growing numbers of unhoused people with limited amounts of housing, it’s more like The Hunger Games than Match.com.

The conversation about gentrification continually repackages a set of debunked theories as reality and it obscures a set of real crises that need fixing.

Why is it always assumed that a city’s rate of growth is natural, or unavoidable, or simply that more growth is always better?