Public housing authorities are using tech to enforce smoke bans and noise rules—but a lawsuit claims it is tracking tenants' ...
The law was designed to boost the nation's supply of housing. But delivering on its promises will depend on at least three things: Congress funding it, a hollowed-out HUD implementing it, and private ...
Whether through diversified funds or direct ownership of retail space, community ownership tools build wealth and shape local ...
The for-profit subsidiary had been pressed over lending to corporate buyers of manufactured home parks. The sale will seed an ...
In Los Angeles, as people organized in response to wildfires and ICE raids, a new group of tenant supporters—The Rent Brigade ...
Tenants in Cleveland's Shaker Square neighborhood, along with many other allies, fought their neglectful corporate landlord, and won. However, it took so long, half the residents were displaced.
The most recent annual count of unhoused people across the country dropped for the first time since 2016. But the reasons it dropped, and the groups affected, complicate the victory.
The department proposed centralizing major public housing, voucher, fair housing, legal, and grant functions after losing nearly 35 percent of its staff. Then it withdrew the notice without ...
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.
In recent years, the Democratic Socialists of America, both nationally and in many chapters, have committed to housing organizing, contributing to the rise of tenant unions while also altering their ...