Opinion

Are policy changes enough to address the housing problems we face?

It’s difficult to know who owns a property because corporate landlords and investors tend to structure their business as limited liability companies, or LLCs.

There’s a reason land ownership is a matter of public record—but at the moment the records we have aren’t actually doing the job.

If high home prices and rents are hallmarks of inequality, the actions of the Federal Reserve should give us pause. Its policy interventions have had profound effects on housing prices.

Investors have helped preserve more than 1,700 affordable housing units in the Washington, D.C., metro area.

Over the last two decades homeowners and investors have increasingly treated housing as a financial asset, like stocks or bonds. How has this changed the housing market for the worse, and how can we fix it?

When we talk about equity, we’re typically talking about individuals or neighborhoods. But what about the imbalance in power and access to resources between entire metropolitan areas?

Sealing eviction records at the point of filing is an urgent step toward dismantling harmful tenant screening practices.

Companies that value meritocracy perform worse with pay equity when their internal policies do not align with their public-facing statements regarding pay.

As communities across the country begin promoting density to address the affordable housing crisis, they must grapple with how that housing will be built, and for whom.

Our fair housing laws enshrine an approach that prohibits us from explicitly referring to race, even in programs intended to undo the harm caused by racism. Now restorative housing policy is attempting to directly confront this history.

Holmdel, New Jersey, moved its affordable housing to flood-prone land, raising a question about planners’ ethical obligations to speak up against such moves.