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At the People and Places Conference earlier this month, we organized a mini-track around “Community Control and Hot Markets.” On the kick-off panel, Malcolm Yeung from Chinatown Community Development Center […]

On April 10, 1968, New York state officials scheduled a public hearing to discuss their plans for an expressway that would have sliced across Lower Manhattan and displaced hundreds of […]

And how do we get more of the good and less of the bad?

How do you make a community development organization’s board welcoming to residents and low-income members, and ensure that once there, they are more than window dressing?

New York City renters who face eviction could get a little more help on their side if a proposed initiative is given the green light. Two years after the introduction […]

Plucked from New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation & Development, Shaun Donovan is leading the effort to make the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development into a relevant, powerful agency.

The community land trust model is in a time of dramatic growth and creativity. Some CLTs are aiming for larger scale than has been typical. How are they doing it?

Neighborhood planning allows CDCs to move beyond housing development and become community catalysts.

The widespread critique of California’s SB 827 got me thinking about why nobody talks about those really profiting from land use decisions that inflate their property values: homeowners.

Between 2011 and 2022, the number of nonprofits with shared-equity programs and CLTs increased by 30 percent. Here’s a look at the diversity of their programs and portfolios, and who’s benefiting from their rise.

A common narrative being promoted about why there is a housing crisis ignores history and serves to assuage new residents’ guilty feelings. But we can craft a new narrative together.

At first glance the news of late has been good regarding fair and affordable housing in Illinois. In September Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed the Comprehensive Housing Initiative, an executive order […]