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What should we be doing now to address the increasing number of children who are expected to suffer pandemic-related homelessness?

I believe that a good story has the power to move people to action. That’s why, after hearing about the work of Mark Horvath—an activist who’s fighting homelessness by posting […]

Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life, by Theda Skocpol. University of Oklahoma Press, 2003, 366 pp, $29.95 (hardcover). The debate raging between centrists and left-progressives as […]

1070 Washington Avenue in the Morrisania section of the Bronx sounds like just another address, but it’s notable for being the home of a new affordable housing complex that could […]

Rural communities are being ignored. Again. As discussion of the federal sequester and fights over funding dominate the news channels as well as policy discussions, key gaps in our ability […]

First it was New York City’s Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town, and now, another enclave built by Metropolitan Life in the 1940s for veterans and middle-class families has run into […]

Home modifications vary greatly in form and cost, a challenge for disabled residents whose homes aren’t accessible to them.

The shake-out of the American economy has left a handful of large banks at the pinnacle of the corporate power structure. Next week, a coalition of major community organizations, unions, […]

The American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008: approved by the Senate on Saturday should appropriately be called the “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Rescue Bill” because that […]

President Obama on Friday announced his new pick for HUD Secretary: San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro. Current HUD Sec. Shaun Donovan has been chosen to lead the Office of Management […]

The Republican and Democratic National Conventions are over, and the nation’s affordable housing crisis has struck out. Not a single primetime speaker even uttered the words “housing crisis” or relayed […]

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