Development should come with affordability. Here's the case for inclusionary housing, and why opponents aren't seeing the ...

After learning it was one of the city’s most prolific evictors, a for-profit affordable housing provider created a tenant retention program that’s being touted as a model for other developers. An ...

A year after she left Chicago’s notorious Robert Taylor Homes public housing development, 30-year-old Lee-Lee Henderson said she was ready to return. “I’d rather live in Robert Taylor,” she answered ...

The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program awards billions in tax credits each year to private market investors and developers who promise to build or preserve affordable housing. But the ...

Building more units has been touted as the solution to the housing crisis, but the location of those units may be just as important as the number. For the past couple of years, there have been a ...

Rapidly rising insurance premiums are forcing affordable housing developers to cut back on programming, lay off staff, and even sell. To add insult to injury, some insurers also seem to be adding ...

Some say yes. But simply making it easier to build will not reach those who are unhoused. It takes some serious chutzpah to assert that the answer to homelessness is obvious, as a piece published ...

Tiny houses are a step up from shelter beds, but are they also a distraction from real, obvious solutions to our homelessness epidemic? If you hang out with people who enjoy things like “clean eating, ...

Are the neighborhoods impacted by large development getting the jobs and affordable housing they were promised? Shelterforce looks back at several cities where community benefits agreements were won ...

The National Tenants Union fought for tenant rights in the 1970s and early 1980s. One of the union’s founders reflects on the organization and what we might learn from those times. In this series ...

Many Black churches in the U.S. are developing housing on their property, and becoming stronger activists in the fight for affordable housing. As the religious and urban landscape changes in North ...

We can’t build our way out of the housing crisis . . . but we won’t get out without building. Affordable housing advocates are facing a disturbing new opponent in planning battles across the country: ...