Practitioner Voice

In Maryland, parents and school leaders joined with housing advocates to win additional rental assistance, targeted to families in the state’s community schools.

From California to North Carolina, tenants are organizing to demand protections from natural disasters.

After residents got notice that their mobile home park was going up for sale, advocates made use of a Virginia law that required the owners to consider a resident-supported counteroffer.

Should monthly charges be pegged to the cost of financing, developing, and operating housing, or to household income? Or are there other ways to design how rent is calculated?

More and more cities and states have plans to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in housing. Here’s how we can avoid possible harms to renters.

Decades of increasing costs and deferred maintenance could lead to people losing their homes, unless changes are made.

When Baltimore got funding for a round of school renovations, the state directed it to design schools that would also advance neighborhood revitalization—and it learned some lessons about why that’s not always so simple.

College-focused rapid rehousing aims to support students facing housing instability all the way through graduation.

Transit stations increase nearby jobs and populations, but they could also contribute to displacement. What can we do differently?

Dallas’s bonds aren’t usually used for housing. A new coalition of advocates changed that.

When it comes to LIHTC deals, nonprofit developers don’t get the same advantages big, for-profit developers do. A new fund is setting out to change that.

It’s been 14 years since the Community Development Advocates of Detroit opened its membership to resident-led groups. Here’s a look at what they’ve learned about working together and navigating the transition.