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How State Coalitions Are Advancing Community Ownership of Housing

In recent years, housing coalitions promoting community land trusts and real estate cooperatives have formed in multiple cities and states—and they are achieving results. Nonetheless, a lot of work is needed to achieve the policy changes these groups desire.

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Busy scene of striking tenants, of mixed ages and skin tones, most holding signs. Signs say "Stop landlord greed/Unionize" and "Every tenant deserves a union" and "Not one cent for the slumlords." Others are round "universal no" signs showing rodents, broken staircases, flooded bathrooms.
Tenant Organizing

Rent Strikes, Targeting Tax Breaks, and Data: Tenant Organizing Beyond Legislative Campaigns

In a time of both federal and state legislature intransigence, tenant organizing strategies that emphasize building-level organizing and other creative approaches are gaining ground.

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Housing

Inside the Colorado Town Where Public Camping Is Considered Workforce Housing

To help ease the burden of finding affordable housing, officials in Buena Vista say businesses can allow employees to live on their property—but only temporarily.

Seen from one end, a row of attached houses in shades of gray line a suburban-looking street. Small grassy front yards separate them from the sidewalk.
Community Control

Denver Land Trust Fights Displacement Whether It Owns the Land or Not

Tierra Colectiva, a community land trust in the Denver neighborhoods of Globeville and Elyria-Swansea, combines community organizing, traditional CLT development, and more unusual roles in a large affordable housing development.

In a large, high-ceilinged room like a community center, a Black woman in a reddish shirt is handing bedding (gray and pink blankets or covers) to a Black man in a light green T-shirt. Behind them is a second woman, dark-haired and wearing a blue shirt.
Homelessness

How Trump’s HUD Budget Proposal Would Harm Homelessness Response

Experts say the change to the HUD budget would make it more difficult to identify people who are homeless and connect them with services, and to prevent homelessness.

Three actors in a play: a Black woman looking offstage and pointing, a Black man holding on to her other arm, and a white woman reaching toward the Black man, a coffee cup in her other hand. They're in front of some steps and behind them is a graffiti'd wall
Review

Clybourne Park on Stage, Housing Inequity in Real Life—A Post-Show Reflection

Clybourne Park—a play exploring race, real estate, and community tensions—can set the stage for discussion on the lasting impacts of housing discrimination, gentrification, and the fight for affordability. What lessons can we take from the past to shape a more just housing future?

An elderly white man in a blue knit shirt seen from the side sits at a table spread with documents.
Affordability

Manufactured Crisis: Losing the Nation’s Largest Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing

Manufactured housing communities have long been an affordable housing option for millions of people living in the U.S., but that affordability is disappearing rapidly. How did we get here?

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Housing

Where Housing Won and Lost in the 2024 Election

Across the U.S., dozens of housing-related ballot measures were up for vote on Nov. 5. Here’s what passed, what was rejected, and what to expect next.

Community Control

Co-op Ownership of Mobile Home Communities, A Webinar

There’s a growing number of manufactured housing owners who are joining together to buy their mobile home parks. We chat with residents, advocates, and technical assistance providers about the ins and outs of buying land together.

Elderly male voter with bulletin in hands comes to voting booth. Photo Multicultural American citizens come to vote in polling station.
Housing

Housing on the Ballot

We’ve tracked down almost three dozen housing-related ballot measures that will be up for vote on Nov. 5. With billions at stake, those measures could be a boon—or a bust—for affordable housing efforts across the U.S.

Distant view of wildfire in Colorado. In the middle distance are houses and buildings. Beyond them, on the far side of an open landscape of grasses, are more settled areas. Some of the buildings are burning. Over the distant ground, thick dark smoke covers the right-hand seven-eighths of the image.At far left is a bit of blue sky.
Environment

What Two Wildfires Reveal About the Cracks in Our Emergency Response

Thousands lost their homes in the Almeda and Marshall fires. Years into long-term recovery, a look at who received emergency assistance and who was left out can teach us a lot about which populations are most vulnerable to climate events.

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Housing

Colorado Wants to Give Tenants Money for Paying Rent

A new statewide program aims to help renters benefit from the value they add to the buildings they live in. Here’s how the program could work, and when it could begin.

A view of a city from a grassy hillside. Just beyond the hill is a large settlement of one- and two-story houses, mostly visible by their roofs. Beyond them rises a steep, evergreen-dotted, and rocky mountain. The sky far beyond is white, except for a bit of blue at the right. No people are visible in this photo.
Housing

Western States Look to These Lands for New Affordable Housing

In several western states, state-owned trust lands were created to support schools and other community benefits.