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It took a few iterations, but HUD last week officially rolled out a demonstration project designed to showcase its plan to address the capital needs backlog in public housing by […]

Federal funding to end veteran homelessness has had a real impact, but a nationwide shortage of affordable housing could make its success temporary.

As the merits and flaws of PETRA are being debated, PolicyLink offers its list of desired outcomes for poor people and economically distressed communities.

HUD hosts listening tour for landlords, inmates protest exploitation of labor with prison strike, a payday loan alternative, and more

We are so close to this goal. We should not change our focus before we meet it.

HUD has proposed a new rule that would make it more difficult to combat racial segregation in housing. The rule doesn’t even mention segregation.

In Pittsburgh, hundreds of Penn Plaza residents were given 90-day eviction notices after their building was slated for demolition. The mass eviction was well known throughout Pittsburgh, but few knew what was happening inside the building.

Landlord Must Accept Section 8 The New Jersey Supreme Court said in March that landlords cannot refuse to participate in the Section 8 program if one of their tenants becomes […]

One Of A Kind Jane Wood, longtime New York City tenant activist, died in March at the age of 96. Wood began fighting to help the poor in the 1930s, […]

Housing advocates working at the local, state, and national levels discuss new research and policy recommendations for advancing housing justice.

From the Frontline to the Sideline (of society) The federal government reported that veterans make up 9 percent of the U.S. population but 23 percent of the homeless population. Male […]

In 2008, a sensationalistic article in The Atlantic tried to draw a causal connection between tenants with housing assistance vouchers being dispersed from demolished public housing in Memphis and increased […]