While chaos reigns at the federal level, it’s up to states and local governments to creatively hold the line, fill the gaps, and figure out new ways forward. Drawing on examples from around the ...

In the last several months, lawmakers in more than two dozen cities and states have made strides to stop landlords from using anti-competitive rental software to determine how much to charge for rent.

In Canada, more than half of all housing on community land trusts is cooperative housing. In the U.S., that number is less than 2 percent. Why? Cooperative housing and community land trusts (CLT) are ...

When a new owner imposed sharp rent hikes in 2018, tenants organized and fought back. Now, more than 300 housing units will be affordable for the foreseeable future. Here’s how the tenants made it ...

Jesse Jackson’s passing reminds us of the need to combine political and economic organizing—and to translate protest gains ...

Each MINT sets its rental mix and target populations locally, but what they have in common is a focus on preventing displacement and capturing the benefits of rising property values for neighborhood ...

The federal rural rental assistance program would be extended in the proposed federal housing bills—with an important rule ...

For such a commonly used term, “affordable housing” means a lot of different things to different people and in different contexts. At the most basic level, housing is “affordable” if, after you pay ...

New federal guidance enables states to use Medicaid dollars to support housing needs. Amid a growing body of evidence demonstrating housing’s impact on health outcomes, the Biden administration has ...

Facing federal and state legislature intransigence, many tenant organizers are shifting toward building-by-building ...

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 ...