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Which Housing Measures Passed in This Election?
Multiple states and localities brought affordable housing measures to the polls in 2025, to varying results.
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Top Racial Justice Leaders Give Post-Election Thoughts
Nearly to a person, the 2,300 attendees at last week’s Facing Race conference—and most of the speakers—said, at some point in the weekend that the gathering was “just where I […]
Where Is Housing on the Ballot in California?
This November’s election will see over 40 local ballot measures that are related to housing in cities and counties across California. Though not directly on a statewide ballot, housing has […]
A Presidential Agenda Requires a Racial Equity Lens
This post is part of a Shelterforce series called Letters to the Next President. Dear Hillary: I am a person from two groups—the independent, undecided voter, as well as an […]
Television’s Antidote to Trump
David Simon’s underappreciated Show Me a Hero offers hope that racial divides can be mended, and past injustices overcome. As November creeps up on us, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton […]
Putting the “Public” Back into Public Housing: A Justice-oriented Agenda
This post is part of a Shelterforce series called Letters to the Next President. Most policymakers, elected officials and advocates would agree that public housing has been transformed but also […]
4 Ways a President Clinton Could Help Cities Thrive in Her First 100 Days
This post is part of a Shelterforce series called Letters to the Next President. In cities across the country, our communities face crises of housing affordability, dangerous and unsustainable infrastructure, […]
How the Major Party Platforms Approach Housing
The major political party platforms take different approaches to federal housing assistance and related topics. The Republican and Democratic platforms adopted at the parties’ conventions in July are couched in […]
Does Place Matter Anymore? Cities and the 2016 Election
I’m not the only one, I suspect, who’s been struck by how little, if at all, cities have figured into the 2016 presidential election up to now.
Does the Disability Rights Movement Offer A Model for Housing Activists?
The Republican and Democratic National Conventions are over, and the nation’s affordable housing crisis has struck out. Not a single primetime speaker even uttered the words “housing crisis” or relayed […]
Two Presidential Affordable Housing Platforms!
Though they haven’t made them central to their campaign, Clinton and Sanders have each released affordable housing platforms.
Breaking Down Walls: Who’s on First on the Banking Committees?
This entry is the third in a series of attempting to demystify the “new” Congress. My last two posts looked at the membership of House and Senate housing and community […]
Service Forum: McCain’s Moment of Truthiness
Just finished watching ServiceNation’s presidential forum on national service, and I’m here to give credit where it’s due: Judy Woodruff asked John McCain to explain his running-mate’s disparaging taunts about […]