Cohousing offers a vision of lower-cost, community-centered living, but communities in the US face barriers that drive up costs.

Organizer Erika Castro has turned the barriers she faced early in life into a pathway for leadership and immigration rights ...

The Family Self-Sufficiency Program has benefits and potential that make the program worth funding—despite the administration ...

City redevelopment subsidies siphon tens of billions of dollars away from public services nationwide. Here are some ways, based on what has worked in Chicago, to fight back. In every state across the ...

To protect themselves from ICE, many families are staying home from work; tenant organizers in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Los Angeles are pushing for eviction moratoriums to keep them safe. Taylor Kohn ...

Zoning reform measures have divided tenant advocates in New York. Yet loosening the city’s anti-housing regime is essential if we ever want to build social housing at scale.

Conversations on housing costs often focus on zoning rules. But two new studies say declining affordability is due far more to rising income inequality than short supply. Community development ...

A tenant organizing push in the Twin Cities has support from labor unions representing more than 25,000 workers. Shelterforce is an independent publication that serves (and sometimes challenges) ...

As federal funding for homelessness programs is threatened, housing advocates are combining large-scale research and case-level data to show why supportive housing works—and why it matters. Federal ...