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Shelterforce’s Lillian Ortiz explains what you can expect in our new Under the Lens series—How Tech Is Changing Housing.

In Springfield, Missouri, senior and disabled tenants at one Millennia affordable housing building say they’ve gone about a year without a working elevator, but their organizing has gotten the city to threaten receivership if it’s not fixed soon.

Housing Choice Voucher holders rely on their local housing authority to pay the bulk of their rent. What happens if it isn’t paid?

The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit is famously complex. We can’t exactly make it simple, but we’ve broken down the basics, especially those that residents of a LIHTC property might want to know, as clearly as possible.

Landmark lawsuits in D.C., New York, and California make source of income discrimination risky for landlords. 

Tenant organizing in Baltimore today is building on a rich legacy of tenant resistance in the city where residential redlining made its debut.

Over generations, residents of the Cooper Park Houses in Brooklyn have created a blueprint for successful housing organizing.

A participatory theatrical arts group takes on tenant and landlord woes, and brings the audience into the action.

While in most cases having a nonprofit as a landlord is considered a win, it doesn’t prevent conflict with tenants. But organizers can take some different tactics when interacting with nonprofit landlords.

Access to counsel in evictions is now funded statewide, and several other tenant protections have passed, but the Maryland effort shows that solidifying tenant protections can be a multiyear process.

Pandemic evictions heightened the urgency. Then the campaign succeeded by finding local champions, presenting cost and benefit data, and spotlighting tenant narratives.

A deadly fire in an affordable housing complex in the Bronx was said to have been caused by a space heater. But a pattern of negligence created the conditions for the tragedy, and made the fire more deadly.