Opinion

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

What should we be doing now to address the increasing number of children who are expected to suffer pandemic-related homelessness?

Are we engaging communities meaningfully, or are we just checking off boxes?

How we can help elected officials promote genuine community by ensuring inclusive, mixed-income housing.

Three big, but basic, things that we could do right now to get us much closer to equity in housing.

A counterintuitive argument contends that from a housing justice perspective, the Biden administration’s attack on exclusionary zoning is imprudent.

If we stick with yesterday’s policy and programs in an unprecedented year of crisis, we will leave an unconscionable number of people, families, and communities behind.

How can the community development field stay aligned with the movements that led to its rise in the first place?

If those in health care seek to develop new ways to help patients stay in their homes, they must also find ways to temper how they affect communities in which they reside.

As cities across the country consider giving tenants the right of first refusal, municipalities must be meticulous in crafting policies that preserve and expand tenants’ ability to form housing cooperatives.

Why the federal government must allocate funds toward mental health counseling for youth and increase access to resources for immigrant families.

The devastation that communities in the Rio Grande Valley experience is twofold: the initial destruction of the floods and the cycle of debt and poverty as a result of predatory loans.