The wealth gap is probably best illustrated in the way our country has, and has not, provided access to the single most important determinant of wealth for the majority of people in the United ...

New community ownership tools, although still nascent, are gaining in prominence. Whether structured as diversified funds or direct ownership of retail space, they share a common thread of using local ...

A new report questions a billionaire-founded think tank's ties to law enforcement and surveillance—and its connections to the Trump administration. On June 5, a group of advocates led by the National ...

The for-profit subsidiary had been pressed over lending to corporate buyers of manufactured home parks. The sale will seed an ...

Experts say the change to the HUD budget would make it more difficult to identify people who are homeless and connect them with services, and to prevent homelessness.

In Los Angeles, as people organized in response to wildfires and ICE raids, a new group of tenant supporters—The Rent Brigade ...

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.

The U.S. owns more than 650 million acres of public lands, and it has the power to sell or lease limited parcels for affordable housing. But mass disposal of public lands, as some legislators have ...

When Chicago tenants on rent strike agreed to stop speaking publicly about their landlord as part of settling their eviction cases, they honored the agreement. They never dreamed the landlord's ...

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.

A proposal from two federal banking regulators would reduce both the scale and scope of federal Community Reinvestment Act oversight. Here’s what could change and how communities can respond. Comments ...