The Know-Your-Rights mural in Richmond, California, includes pointers on rent control, just cause eviction, and fair chance ...
Prior to the press conference, members had attended trainings on working with media and conducting effective phone banking ...
Here's what happens when leaders loosen zoning permitting and invest in community-scale development at the same time.
Development should come with affordability. Here's the case for inclusionary housing, and why opponents aren't seeing the full picture. Every morning in San Francisco, before most of us are awake, ...
The Council of Community Housing Organizations has created an infographic that breaks down the basics of filtering, the assumptions behind it, and the reasons it doesn’t work the way some say it does.
Community land trusts and cooperatives are two of the most prominent models of community ownership, and ones we’ve written about for many years. In this series we take a focused look at some of the ...
The National Tenants Union fought for tenant rights in the 1970s and early 1980s. One of the union’s founders reflects on the organization and what we might learn from those times. In this series ...
We can’t build our way out of the housing crisis . . . but we won’t get out without building. Affordable housing advocates are facing a disturbing new opponent in planning battles across the country: ...
The Heritage Foundation’s “conservative playbook” isn’t new, but critics say the latest version’s policies and platforms are more discriminatory and dangerous than in the past. In anticipation of a ...
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 ...
After learning it was one of the city’s most prolific evictors, a for-profit affordable housing provider created a tenant retention program that’s being touted as a model for other developers. An ...