affordable housing

It’s time to take factory-built homes seriously as affordable housing.

Leading up to the federal shutdown that began at midnight Sept. 30, there was a lot of speculation about what that would mean for various housing and community development programs. […]

A young man trying to build the urban farm economy in West Sacramento, Calif., has a novel idea. He saw an avenue lined with run-down old motels and asked, why […]

Developing affordable rental housing these days is a lot like putting together a puzzle – when the financing pieces are all in place, a thing of beauty results, but when […]

Tax-writing committees in both houses of Congress are developing legislation to reform the tax code that may be seriously considered over the next year.  They should use this opportunity to […]

Here's exhibit A on how not to convince skeptical housing justice advocates (or anyone else) that mixed-income housing developments represent a step forward: Make the residents of the affordable units […]

It’s the rare occasion when a significant social challenge is raised up in rigorous economic research and almost instantly answered by a creative and dynamic public policy response. Yet, in […]

I had the privilege of joining Eric Belsky, the director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) at Harvard University at the launch of its 2013 State of the […]

Even where gentrification is only a distant threat (or hope, depending on your perspective) it looms large in any discussion of neighborhood change.

A. No. No. No. Are 56 studies enough no for you?

For nearly half a century, community development corporations (CDCs) have been a tool of choice for organizing and implementing grassroots economic development programs. Emerging in the aftermath of the civil […]

High-capacity nonprofit housing enterprises that can achieve efficiencies of scale have an important role to play in addressing the affordable housing crisis and policy makers should help them do so.