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You Can’t Have Social Housing Without Building Housing
Zoning reform measures have divided tenant advocates in New York. Yet loosening the city’s anti-housing regime is essential if we ever want to build social housing at scale.
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Housing as a Public Good: The State of Social Housing Today, a Shelterforce/NPQ webinar
What do we mean by social housing in the United States? How has it worked in the past, and how should it be expanded? Watch “Housing as a Public Good: The State of Housing Today.”
Housing as a Public Good: The State of Social Housing Today, a Shelterforce/NPQ webinar
Editor’s Note: This event has concluded. Watch the video and read the transcript here. What do we mean by social housing in the United States? How has it worked in […]
How Social Housing Won in Seattle, Despite a Flood of Big Tech Money
Voters chose to provide a new social housing development authority with the funding it needs to succeed—despite opposition from the mayor and tech corporations.
Sweden’s Housing Co-ops Offer a Model for Moderate-Income Housing
In Sweden, almost one-quarter of all housing is in co-ops. Here are some lessons for this mixed-income housing model.
We’re Approaching Social Housing Wrong
Components common to most U.S. social housing proposals are bound to replicate problems we already have.
Why Don’t California’s Nonprofit Housers Embrace Social Housing?
Attachment to tax credits, which can’t provide as much housing as we need, is keeping the much-needed expertise of nonprofit developers out of conversations about alternatives.

LIHTC: Are Little Changes Enough? A Shelterforce Webinar
There are reforms and expansions of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit afoot. But some in the field argue that we need to change the tax credit model of financing housing more deeply—or move away from it entirely. Join scholars and organizers as they discuss these issues and explore a path forward.

How We Can Bring Vienna’s Housing Model to the U.S.
Legislators visited Vienna to learn about the city’s social housing program. Here’s how they say their states’ housing crises would benefit from similar policies.

What Can We Learn From the U.K.’s Council Housing? (Hint: Vienna Isn’t the Only Example of Transformative Social Housing.)
Social historian John Boughton explains how the U.K.’s social housing system changed millions of low- and middle-income people’s lives—and how privatization has crippled its power.

Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Is Reinventing Housing
Not so long ago, social housing was rarely discussed in the U.S. Today. there are over a dozen social housing campaigns across the country.

How to Retrofit the Housing Economy
Are policy changes enough to address the housing problems we face?

Social Housing: A Path to Housing for All?
How do we reduce the precariousness of housing so that a public health crisis or other disaster doesn’t snowball into displacement? Many people are calling for more social housing as part of that solution. What does that mean? What will it take to make it happen?
