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Though the need is greater than ever for resale-restricted, affordable homes, the growth of this model of homeownership appears to be limited.

Two cities show how community-based organizations and labor can overcome their historical divide to work together.

Will Hurricane Katrina change the way intermediaries do business?

In September, Helen Dunlap was appointed president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. She most recently served as HUD’s deputy assistant secretary for operations and before that as deputy […]

Shelter Burden: Local Politics and Progressive Housing Policy by Edward G. Goetz.  250 pp.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1993. $39.95 (cloth) Shelter Poverty: New Ideas on Housing Affordability by Michael […]

Thomas M. Menino, now serving his third term as mayor of Boston, became president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in May and quickly elevated the issue of affordable housing […]

For many of today’s young people, the civil rights movement has been relegated to America’s mythic past. Though they celebrate the toppling of segregation’s legal structures, few born after the […]

How can we get more accessory dwelling units built, keep them affordable, and make them forces for increasing racial equity?

Last November, we surveyed readers about what they thought the rise of high-capacity nonprofit housing developers meant for neighborhood-based community developers that use real estate as a tool in their […]

During the 1970s and early 1980s, the fight for rent control galvanized tenant organizing. That era’s economic and political context made rent control timely and attainable on a number of […]

A remarkable left-right consensus has emerged that one of the most promising ways to address poverty these days is through minority business development. Politicians, policymakers, philanthropists, academics, corporate heads, and […]

Four disability advocates and experts explain what’s needed to house Americans with disabilities and some of the work that’s being done to get there.