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Housing professionals have spent so much time making homeownership attainable through subsidized payments, they’ve failed to see there’s a better path to affordable homeownership.

Inclusionary housing policies can help with a lot of the issues that many cities and towns struggle with these days, from the dwindling supply of affordable rental options in hot housing markets to the need for a fairer housing market that includes real location choices for lower-income households. These policies, which ask developers to include […]

In California, municipalities are required by law to plan for their fair share of affordable housing. Has this put housing advocates out of a job? Not quite. There’s a big […]

How we can help elected officials promote genuine community by ensuring inclusive, mixed-income housing.

As housing becomes ever more urgent an issue, California’s model for running a statewide ballot campaign offers insights to organizations around the nation.

Building more units has been touted as the solution to the housing crisis, but the location of those units may be just as important as the number.

Is it more important to have mixed-income buildings, or to give more people access to mixed-income neighborhoods?

Organized labor and affordable housing advocates in San Jose and Silicon Valley have formed a coalition to support more low-income housing, inclusionary zoning, and tenants rights.

In the whole string of related inclusionary housing decisions, what emerges is a story of a multi-decade coordinated effort by the real estate development industry to limit its reach.

Local governments are embracing community land trusts to promote and preserve affordable housing.

The city is growing fast and building a lot of housing. But the new housing isn’t keeping pace with the need, especially for high-income and extremely low-income earners.

Now that the 2017 election season has concluded, here is a recap of their outcomes, and where affordable housing policy could go in some cities.