The Continuum of Care Program, the federal government’s biggest pool of funds for housing homeless people, will continue with ...

As the single-family rental market grows, organizers are adapting their tactics to a housing landscape that stretches across ...

Our lack of affordable housing isn't a failure on the part of the people seeking housing—it's a failure of the market.

A tenant opportunity to purchase act (TOPA) is a policy that gives tenants some specific rights when their building goes up for sale. Learn what it covers and what it doesn’t in this video. When a ...

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 ...

As cities across the country consider giving tenants the right of first refusal, municipalities must be meticulous in crafting policies that preserve and expand tenants' ability to form housing ...

As housing activists and academics who conduct research on issues of housing and displacement, we have encountered major problems with Eviction Lab’s practices. There is perhaps no more influential ...

Are the neighborhoods impacted by large development getting the jobs and affordable housing they were promised? Shelterforce looks back at several cities where community benefits agreements were won ...

Nowadays housing is treated more as an instrument for financial gain than a place for shelter. How has this way of thinking changed the market? In this series we explore what people mean when they ...

Tenant screening software has become an industry standard. It sifts through publicly available and proprietary data to gauge the suitability of potential renters. An applicant’s rent-paying history is ...