A Massachusetts initiative uncovers how fragmented programs make healthy homes harder to achieve—and helps local leaders ...

Housing with preconditions means more people will cycle through shelters, jails, and the streets, fueling efforts to ...

In the memoir Staking Our Claim, Pat Morrissy talks about the early days of Shelterforce, organizing for rent control in New Jersey, and supporting tenant leaders.

Pransky was an activist lawyer who fought for and defended both tenants and rent control policies in New Jersey. McKee organized in New York City, founding multiple organizations and helping to defend ...

Robert Lopez is a freelance writer based in North Carolina. He has worked in the journalism field for more than 20 years and has written for, among other publications, the Houston Chronicle, ...

Housing is fundamental to healthy families and communities. That’s why we must fight for policies that treat public housing as essential as roadways and schools. When most Americans think of public ...

The U.S. owns more than 650 million acres of public lands, and it has the power to sell or lease limited parcels for affordable housing. But mass disposal of public lands, as some legislators have ...

A program started in Roswell, New Mexico, has gone statewide. Here's how Rehab-2-Rental works, and what's to come.

“During every community land trust homebuyer education class, I’ve looked each person in the eye and told them, ‘When your financial circumstances change—good or bad—you call me.’ I didn’t know the ...

It was more than a decade ago when the National Housing Institute published a landmark report on shared-equity homeownership, or resale-restricted, owner-occupied housing for lower-income households ...