Under the Lens: A Closer Look with Shelterforce

New AFFH Rules—What You Need to Know

Editor’s Note

AFFH: Third Time’s the Charm?

Miriam Axel-Lute -
What’s the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing provision? How has it been enforced in the past? And what do fair housing advocates think of the proposed changes? Shelterforce’s new Under the Lens series—New AFFH Rules: What You Need to Know—explores that and more.

AFFH’s Bumpy Road to Overcoming Segregation

What Is Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing?

Why Oregon Created Its Own AFFH Rule

Public Housing Must Be a Part of Fair Housing Planning

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Tenant Power Returns

Tenant Power Returns

Tenants Rights: It’s Not a Moment, It’s a Movement

Miriam Axel-Lute -
In "Tenant Power Returns," Shelterforce examines how the energy and focus in the housing world is returning to tenant organizing.

Top 6 Tenant Protections Renters Are Fighting For

Tenant Protections 101

Organized Tenants Are Baaaaack

The Rise and Fall of the National Tenants Union

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Homes or Cash Cows?

Editor’s Note

Making Money Over Making Homes

Miriam Axel-Lute -
Housing has become less about shelter and more about extracting profit. How has that way of thinking changed the market and what are housing advocates trying to do about it? In our new series—Homes or Cash Cows—Shelterforce explores the financialization of housing.

What Is the Financialization of Housing?

The Financialization of Housing and Its Implications for Community Development

How the Federal Reserve’s Monetary Policy Drives Housing Inequality

Breaking NYC’s Housing Speculation Cycle

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ADUs Explained

Editor’s Note

What Does It Take to Get ADUs Built?

Miriam Axel-Lute -
In our new series—ADUs Explained—we’ll look at some of the major policy considerations in legalizing accessory dwelling units, how they get built and financed, and the role they can play in our affordable housing landscape.

What’s an Accessory Dwelling Unit?

ADUs: Defined, Disambiguated, and Debated

ADUs: Laws and Uses, Do’s and Don’ts

How Financing Barriers Keep ADUs Expensive

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The Racial Wealth Gap—Moving to Systemic Solutions

Editor’s Note

Moving Beyond the Holy Trinity of Racial Wealth Gap Answers

Miriam Axel-Lute -
We’ve been carrying out asset-building strategies for decades now, but the wealth gap has not shrunk. What needs to be done about it?

Doing “The Right Thing” Won’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap

Rethinking the Racial Wealth Gap With Anne Price

Wealth Building Won’t Work While Wealth Extraction Continues

The Debt Trap: How Court Debt Widens the Racial Wealth Gap

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Building Differently

Editor’s Note

Building Differently: Can It Reduce Construction Costs?

Miriam Axel-Lute -
Experiments to lower construction costs, from reusing shipping containers to 3D printing walls, have been happening for years. But are any of these approaches able to provide meaningful savings at scale?

Can New Construction Methods Lower the Cost of Housing?

How Community Developers Are Using Alternative Construction Methods

Containing Costs Through Shipping Container Housing

Does ‘Innovation’ in Construction Just Mean Fewer Jobs?

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Community Ownership Takes Center Stage

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Whatever Happened To ...

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