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To meaningfully evaluate real estate-related companies, organizations that evaluate impact investment standards must address tenant experiences.

Over the past few months, considerable attention of housing advocates, policymakers and, yes, even the media, has been focused on the enormous budget problem facing HUD in Fiscal Year 1998, […]

Most communities lack a way of collecting real-time data on whether landlords are complying with rules. A rental registry could change that.

It was hardly an unusual story in 1993 in Montgomery, Alabama. A tenant had spent months trying to get her landlord to fix a persistent leak in her roof, and […]

A program to stabilize residents whose subsidized housing is disrupted has also been used to support other highly vulnerable residents, but those uses are a matter of controversy.

The problems affecting the Cooks Bridge complex in Needham, Massachusetts, in 1990 were the kind typically associated with troubled public housing: lack of or poor maintenance and drug-related crime. After […]

Tenants got to talk directly to the Biden administration about the need to rein in soaring rents. Will action follow?

The UK saw a dramatic change in landlord behavior once security deposits were put into the hands of a third party.

Low-income residents transform their complex into a community of choice through ownership—without importing higher-income neighbors

How San Francisco’s housing movement turned an assault on renters into a victory

In “Tenant Power Returns,” Shelterforce examines how the energy and focus in the housing world is returning to tenant organizing.

If we simply pay tenants’ rent indiscriminately, we have no way of knowing where the ultimate benefit goes.