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What do we mean by social housing in the United States? How has it worked in the past, and how should it be expanded? Watch “Housing as a Public Good: The State of Housing Today.”

The financial intricacies involved in building affordable housing can be difficult to understand. This explainer breaks down the foundational concepts.

In Springfield, Missouri, senior and disabled tenants at one Millennia affordable housing building say they’ve gone about a year without a working elevator, but their organizing has gotten the city to threaten receivership if it’s not fixed soon.

The Rent Brigade says it’s found evidence of thousands of likely instances of rent gouging. In some cases, the landlords accused of exploiting the fires had made campaign donations to those responsible for enforcement.

Having access to shelter based on your gender identity is still the law, but HUD won’t enforce it, and is working to remove that protection. The result may be an even greater rise in unsheltered homelessness.

We share images from six of the cities around the country where members of three national organizing networks took action on May 20 to protest cuts to federal housing funding and lift up local solutions.

Neighborhoods in many cities resist stadium development proposals. This poem reflects on a recent case in Philadelphia. 

Starting with cases involving sexual orientation and identity, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is hobbling enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. Said one HUD attorney: “People are really being harmed by it.”

Our running list of major federal housing actions since Jan. 20.

A legal case claiming that COVID-era eviction moratoriums were unconstitutional could spell trouble for tenant protections

Since Trump took office, the administration has blocked multiple affordable housing funding streams. Here’s a look at which funds have been frozen, which have been reinstated, and which are in the courts.

We’ve compiled a roundup of the major housing and community development–related actions and changes we’ve seen so far in Trump’s second term.