Practitioner Voice

Underinvested communities are at a disadvantage when it comes to attracting and deploying funding. The Center for Community Investment is helping to change that.

Many guests at Motels4Now are on their second or third stays—but staff say that doesn’t equal failure, and the numbers bear them out.

Tenant organizing has the power to transcend culture wars and break down the artificial barriers that have been placed between us.

As housing and building costs rise, nonprofit developers find themselves with strained resources as pandemic relief dries up and tenants need housing assistance more than ever.

Researchers found that older homeowners in St. Louis averaged $13,000 in unmet home repairs. Here’s how advocates can measure home repair need in their own cities, and why repairs make a difference.

Affordable housing projects should incorporate a range of accessibility features, going above and beyond code requirements.

New federal guidance enables states to use Medicaid dollars to support housing needs.

The ambitious funding campaign took strong cross-movement organizing and the right political moment.

As LA’s Inside Safe program works to transition unhoused Angelenos from hotels into permanent housing, its leaders should look to California’s Project Roomkey for lessons.

Rising property values come with positive community development, but this shift can make neighborhoods inaccessible to low-income renters and fixed-income homeowners.

Getting solid legal protections in place will help tenants stick up for themselves more safely and effectively.

NYC’s land speculators use LLCs to evade legal responsibility while sitting on vacant property.