affordable housing

Moving away from financialized housing will take developers who are willing to operate differently.

There’s a reason land ownership is a matter of public record—but at the moment the records we have aren’t actually doing the job.

What can be done to significantly advance Black homeownership and access to affordable housing? Watch the panel discussion.

Investors have helped preserve more than 1,700 affordable housing units in the Washington, D.C., metro area.

Over the last two decades homeowners and investors have increasingly treated housing as a financial asset, like stocks or bonds. How has this changed the housing market for the worse, and how can we fix it?

A: So far, researchers haven’t found that an increase in vouchers by itself causes rents to rise.

As communities across the country begin promoting density to address the affordable housing crisis, they must grapple with how that housing will be built, and for whom.

Holmdel, New Jersey, moved its affordable housing to flood-prone land, raising a question about planners’ ethical obligations to speak up against such moves.

We talk a lot about needing more affordable housing—but the affordable units that do exist can be very hard to locate, which hampers fair housing.

Internet connectivity has become equally important to households as basic utilities, but millions of people who live in affordable housing still lack access to devices and connections. Housing managers across the country are finding innovative ways to close the digital gap.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are under a congressional mandate to improve investment in three specific kinds of housing markets—but Congress didn’t say by how much, and advocates say they could be doing far more.

Transitioning out of homelessness can be a lonely process. To address this, some homeless service providers are giving clients the option to share housing with someone they know, with each receiving their own bedroom.