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Shelterforce recently hosted a conversation about how to fight, and win, against corporate landlords and their extractive business models. Watch the video or read the transcript.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that overrode dozens of local tenant protection laws won there in recent years. How are housing organizers in Florida fighting back? And what can other organizers do if they live in a state that is hostile to tenant protections?

Eviction, tiny houses, hotel rooms for the homeless, and COVID-19—Shelterforce’s 10 most-read articles of 2020.

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

Why are nuisance ordinances proliferating nationwide, and who is disproportionately affected?

What are the New Deal for Housing Justice and the BREATHE Act and how do they move beyond previous housing agendas?

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

Some leases plainly contradict state law or include questionable, punitive, or egregiously anti-tenant clauses.

Last year, tenant advocacy groups convinced the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to give cash quickly to residents at risk of eviction. As federal rent relief money trickles out, what can other areas learn from Santa Fe’s program?

With Democrats taking back the Senate, can the Biden administration go beyond immediate-term rent relief to win more ambitious housing solutions?

The rationale behind supportive housing for people with mental disabilities is that pairing individualized services with permanent housing will help them live independently. But one San Francisco advocate sees more neglect than support.

Tenant organizing in Baltimore today is building on a rich legacy of tenant resistance in the city where residential redlining made its debut.