Here's what happens when leaders loosen zoning permitting and invest in community-scale development at the same time.

OPA is a policy that gives tenants some specific rights when their building goes up for sale. Here we describe what they ...

Development should come with affordability. Here's the case for inclusionary housing, and why opponents aren't seeing the ...

The OZ program unleashed billions in private capital. Whether it lifts neighborhoods or just investors hinges on who’s steering the money and how well they can navigate the system. Now that Congress ...

An enduring vision for many people across the country is to collectively own local land and buildings, thus controlling how those properties are used and who benefits from them. It’s a way for people ...

Tierra Colectiva, a community land trust in the Denver neighborhoods of Globeville and Elyria-Swansea, combines community organizing, traditional CLT development, and more unusual roles in a large ...

The mayoral candidate made a rent freeze central to his campaign. Here's how his supporters used in-person campaigning to clinch a victory, and what's ahead. “We have won because New Yorkers have ...

Tenant screening software has become an industry standard. It sifts through publicly available and proprietary data to gauge the suitability of potential renters. An applicant’s rent-paying history is ...

This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Kennell Staten saw Walker Courts as his best path out of homelessness, he said. The complex had ...

Our conversation with The Color of Law author Richard Rothstein on uncovering truths about our not-so distant history of federally mandated racial segregation in housing. There are sometimes audible ...

Fran Quigley Fran Quigley directs the Health and Human Rights Clinic at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, where he and his students represent low-income tenants in eviction ...

Across the U.S., private-equity firms, real estate investment firms, and other types of investors have been making multimillion-dollar purchases of “mobile” home communities. Many of these newer park ...