Public housing authorities are using tech to enforce smoke bans and noise rules—but a lawsuit claims it is tracking tenants' ...

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 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 ...

Private equity firms are major players in the rental housing market. Here's how private equity ownership works, how it harms tenants, and the organizing strategies and policy responses that could help ...

Helping older adults remain in their homes has become a policy goal across the country. Making it happen is far more complicated. Longer lifespans, evolving household structures, and growing care ...

In recent years, housing coalitions promoting community land trusts and real estate cooperatives have formed in multiple cities and states—and they are achieving results. Nonetheless, a lot of work is ...