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How do we grow or even stabilize when we’ve topped out our dues income and have to do more and more to keep the level of foundation support we have?

In 1990, Atlanta’s per capita income was below that of its metro area. But in 2004, after years of encouraging professionals to move to...

His was a life devoted to the preservation of our civil liberties. But it all began with a belief in decent, affordable housing.

Mayor Brown's plan for a new downtown in Oakland was stymied by a resurgence of grassroots housing advocacy

The people who staff antipoverty programs hardly ever get interviewed, although they’re primary sources of non-ideological information about the grassroots problems of the poor.

While planners and developers redraw the city map, displaced residents struggle to have a role in rebuilding New Orleans.

Will Hurricane Katrina change the way intermediaries do business?

Hurricane Katrina forced organizing groups to stretch to their limits, but it also showcased their strengths as never before

The handling of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath underscores the human disaster resulting from the ascendancy of right-wing ideas and corporate domination of the federal government, which extols market forces, individualism and private charity over public responsibility and the common good.

Tenants in New York City are getting fed up as growing numbers of tourists camp out in their buildings. Landlords have taken to evicting...

Sarasota, Florida, tops a list of the meanest cities in America compiled by the National Coalition for the Homeless and National Law Center on...

President Bush issued another round of proposed cuts to housing and social service programs in February as he sent his latest budget to Congress....

In the second largest settlement ever involving an alleged predatory lender, Ameriquest agreed to a $325 million settlement in January after a two-year investigation...

Anti-lead advocates scored a big win in court in February when a jury ruled that three paint companies sold products they knew contained toxic...

Good design and affordability are not mutually exclusive, but finding help to bring these two together can be tough.

A labor/community partnership stops a fare hike and gives workers a boost