Community land trusts and cooperatives are two of the most prominent models of community ownership, and ones we’ve written about for many years. In this series we take a focused look at some of the ...

For more than a century, American reformers have struggled to remedy the problems of poverty in the places where low-income people live. At first, these social improvers could muster only a few ...

Homelessness services administrators share their views on how proposed cuts, rapid changes to funding guidelines, and delays ...

A common refrain heard by locals opposed to new housing developments is that area schools can’t absorb the increase in students they’ll bring. As the nation approaches an “enrollment cliff,” the data ...

States can pursue legal remedies under anti-trust laws when landlords collude to raise rents or institute junk fees—even if ...

Federal Policy Judge Blocks HUD’s Effort to Overhaul Federal Funding for Homeless Services The Continuum of Care Program, the federal government’s biggest pool of funds for housing homeless people, ...

The financial intricacies involved in building affordable housing can be difficult to understand. This explainer breaks down the foundational concepts. Total development cost, or TDC: The summed costs ...

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 ...

Preventing unnecessary evictions is more important than ever for local governments. Here are some of the approaches being ...

Tenant screening software has become an industry standard. It sifts through publicly available and proprietary data to gauge the suitability of potential renters. An applicant’s rent-paying history is ...

With rising insurance, debt, and operating costs outpacing rents and subsidies, affordable housing is becoming harder to ...