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Housing Groups Weigh in on Harris’s and Trump’s Housing Plans

How well do the presidential candidates’ proposals address the growing housing crisis? Housing advocacy groups share their thoughts and criticisms of the plans (or lack thereof).

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Kingston Agreed the Rent Was Too Damn High—So It Lowered It

Rent stabilization typically limits the amount that rent can go up every year—but a newly appointed rent guidelines board in Kingston, N.Y., took it a step further.

Busy scene of striking tenants, of mixed ages and skin tones, most holding signs. Signs say "Stop landlord greed/Unionize" and "Every tenant deserves a union" and "Not one cent for the slumlords." Others are round "universal no" signs showing rodents, broken staircases, flooded bathrooms.
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Could This Rolling Rent Strike Make the Feds Protect Tenants?

Organizers aim to catalyze a crisis to pressure a major federal housing regulator to lock in tenant protections.

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Where the Harris, Trump Campaigns Stand on Housing

Here’s how each candidate has responded to (or ignored) five key housing issues: low supply, accessible homeownership, tenant protections, rent control, and homelessness.

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How Project 2025 Would Dismantle HUD

The Heritage Foundation’s “conservative playbook” isn’t new, but critics say the latest version’s policies and platforms are more discriminatory and dangerous than in the past.

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What Started as Emergency Housing Could Offer a Model for Ending Homelessness in Delaware

Four years ago, New Castle County bought a hotel to provide safe housing for its most vulnerable residents. That property evolved away from purely emergency housing to a very different, more holistic, model of care.

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States Are Using This Tool to Keep LIHTC Housing Affordable for Longer

Some state finance agencies are using qualified allocation plans, or QAPs, to extend affordability of LIHTC housing beyond 30 years and increase tenant protections. Here’s a look at where it’s happening.

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Housing Advocates Design a Better Homecoming for People Leaving Incarceration

Programs that offer reentry housing for formerly incarcerated people often replicate jail or prison settings. How can housing providers do better?

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Housing Equity in Limbo—Why Hasn’t Biden Finalized an Update to AFFH?

Last year it seemed like a new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule was imminent, but it never happened. And now it’s late enough in the term that if it were finalized, next year’s Congress could invalidate it.

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What’s Happening with the Billions in Climate Funding for Low-Income Communities?

Shelterforce breaks down the latest information on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. How can the affordable housing industry take advantage of the funding opportunities, and why are some folks worried about the fund’s rollout?

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How Quito’s Climate Relocation Plan Left 44 Families in Jeopardy

Thirteen years ago, an ambitious government initiative set out to move hundreds of families away from perilous conditions, including landslides, in Ecuador’s capital. Today, 37 of those households are still waiting for the subsidies they need to become true owners of their new homes.

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Will This Resident Group Get Full Control of the Complex They Helped Fix?

For decades, a group of Cambodian refugees worked to improve and upgrade their Stockton, California, affordable housing complex. While they technically own half of the property, they’re still waiting for HUD to approve their full ownership. Why hasn’t it happened yet?