Earlier this year, HUD proposed a rule to ban mixed-status families from public and other federally supported housing. For now, their housing remains secure, but the threat of a new rule remains, and ...

Many rural counties in New York rely on hotels for shelter space. A few counties tried an alternative solution.

In 2021, the eviction of an encampment at Echo Park Lake made headlines. A group of archivists is making sure the story isn't ...

Duke has raised its lowest wage. Community advocates say that's a start, and they are calling for more to be done to help ...

Continuing legal action has made homeless services providers' fates uncertain. I've spoken with over 160 of these providers.

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 ...

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 ...

While renters and homebuyers' challenges dominate the headlines, they aren't the only ones wrestling with maintaining decent housing. Rising housing costs are burdening millions of low-income ...

Older homeowners often fall into a catch-22: too much home equity to qualify for aid, but too little income to comfortably live in their homes. Some housing models aim to bridge that gap. Longer ...

As more than 5,000 rent-stabilized units connected to the Pinnacle Group prepare to go up for auction in 2026, residents warn would-be buyers not to overlook the years of disrepair that made those ...

Enabled by provisions in the JOBS Act of 2012 that allow smaller scale investing, community members are becoming co-owners of local real estate projects. An enduring vision for many people across the ...