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In Evanston, Illinois, and Minneapolis, tenants organized against the same private-equity-backed landlord. In Evanston, the city provided financial support for tenant organizing while Minneapolis did not. Might this explain the difference in tenant outcomes?

Public housing authorities and other affordable housing landlords are turning to tech meant for short-term rentals to enforce smoke bans and noise rules—but a new lawsuit has evidence they are also constantly tracking tenants’ movements.

The ROAD to Housing bill includes a section ensuring long-term disaster recovery support for the first time, a vital response to growing climate-related disasters. Now comes the challenge of implementation.

Longer lifespans, evolving household structures, and growing care demands are changing people’s housing needs. In this webinar, panelists highlight policies and practices that can support housing and community in an aging society.

The law was designed to boost the nation’s supply of housing. But delivering on its promises will depend on at least three things: Congress funding it, a hollowed-out HUD implementing it, and private developers building.

HUD’s recent efforts to gut Housing First have sought to apply the logic from the addiction recovery industry to homelessness funding. Applying Housing First’s autonomy-centered logic to addiction recovery could be far more effective.

New community ownership tools, although still nascent, are gaining in prominence. Whether structured as diversified funds or direct ownership of retail space, they share a common thread of using local ownership to build wealth and shape local development.

The affordable housing nonprofit acknowledged its power over the for-profit commercial mortgage lender subsidiary after Shelterforce pressed it about questionable loans the lender was making to corporate buyers of manufactured home parks. Now Enterprise says the sale will seed an endowment.

In Los Angeles, as people organized in response to wildfires and ICE raids, a new group of tenant supporters—The Rent Brigade—emerged. But can its energy, born in crisis, be sustained for the long haul?

Tenants in Cleveland’s Shaker Square neighborhood, along with many other allies, fought their neglectful corporate landlord, and won. However, it took so long, half the residents were displaced.

People experiencing homelessness are often forced to choose between shelter and their pet. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Our organization has been running a pet-friendly shelter for years. Here’s how we do it.

The most recent annual count of unhoused people across the country dropped for the first time since 2016. But the reasons it dropped, and the groups affected, complicate the victory.