A law prohibiting localities from passing stronger tenant-landlord laws than the state's severely hampers tenant organizing—but doesn't prevent it.

Since 2022, all new units within the Houston Land Bank must be built to meet its accessibility standards. The organization ...

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The pandemic reminded us how education and housing affect each other. Now some advocates are fighting to make sure no one ...

We explore the ways the educational justice and housing justice movements overlap, why it’s challenging for these two spheres ...

Once dismissed as a “third-rail political issue,” housing is finally being prioritized as a platform issue in the 2024 presidential election. That is in no small part because the housing crisis, ...

The goal of transit-oriented development (TOD) is vibrant, walkable neighborhoods centered around public transit hubs. At ...

Editor’s Note: Want to know what passed, what was rejected, and what to expect next? We followed up with all these ballot measures in “Where Housing Won and Lost in the 2024 Election.” There are ...

Shelterforce tracked down almost three dozen housing-related ballot measures that were up for vote in Tuesday’s general election. Overall, we found that the outcomes were largely positive. In more ...

Previous versions of this article appeared in Cooperative Housing Quarterly and Shareable. The housing supply crisis in the United States has hit low- to moderate-income households the hardest. While ...

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