Rising costs, rent arrears, and aging properties are forcing nonprofit affordable housing developers to rethink what they can afford to own.

Alex Strada worked with 300 shelter staff members and residents to create "Public Address." The project will travel across ...

A Portland, Oregon, project aims to turn aging rentals into affordable condos. But that affordability currently rests on ...

Ending unsheltered homelessness was a major campaign promise for the current mayor of Portland, Oregon. Homelessness service providers in the area say he chose methods that don't work. Steven Rock, a ...

Wages are out of step with housing costs. Santa Fe hopes to change that by tying minimum wage increases to HUD’s Fair Market ...

Los Angeles has imposed an additional tax on luxury home sales to generate millions for housing efforts in the city. Shelterforce checks in on where the money has gone, and what’s to come. While it ...

Across the country, communities are grappling with how to ensure housing is truly fit to live in—not just on paper, but in practice. While habitability laws exist in many cities, enforcement is often ...

Tiny houses are a step up from shelter beds, but are they also a distraction from real, obvious solutions to our homelessness epidemic? If you hang out with people who enjoy things like “clean eating, ...

For more than a century, American reformers have struggled to remedy the problems of poverty in the places where low-income people live. At first, these social improvers could muster only a few ...

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 ...

This Under the Lens series explores the growing use of technology in the housing world. Can the proper guardrails be put in place so “innovative” tools don’t make the housing crisis worse? Top ...