A $5 billion initiative aims to reduce inequity between the city's neighborhoods, but its financing method might not get the needed buy-in.

Businesses owned by immigrants, including green card holders, have been deemed ineligible for federal Small Business ...

For decades, a network HUD-certified housing counselors has helped families make ends meet. A change in the rules puts this ...

In Portland, Oregon, social housing has followed a stop-and-go trajectory. A one-time windfall has let the city pilot a revolving loan fund to acquire property that can support permanently affordable ...

The end of affordability restrictions doesn’t automatically mean homes will be lost, but aging buildings and rising costs ...

An Ithaca landlord argued that source-of-income discrimination laws force them to consent to government searches, and courts agreed twice. The reasoning has since surfaced in a dozen cases across the ...

In recent years, Los Angeles and Seattle voters have approved major taxes to boost affordable housing using a “social housing” approach. But they offer two very different visions of what that means.

Longer lifespans, evolving household structures, and growing care needs are changing what people need from their homes and communities. In this Under the Lens series, Shelterforce examines what it ...

The president floated cutting Community Development Block Grants entirely from the federal budget, which Congress has so far declined to do. How do these grants get used at the local level? “Funders ...

Co-op City in the Bronx is the size of a small city—as well as a decades old housing co-op and an island of comparative affordability. How did it come about? Affordable housing activists spend a lot ...

The conversation about gentrification continually repackages a set of debunked theories as reality and it obscures a set of real crises that need fixing. Let’s start by separating gentrification ...