We must always remember that New Orleans was suffering from an economic and political disaster long before Hurricane Katrina hit. “Welcome to the Third World!” More than one person said this to me ...

Shelterforce published more than 140 pieces this year. It came as no surprise that most of our top stories were about federal ...

Years ago, officials in dozens of cities showed interest in alternatives to the traditional security deposit. That momentum ...

Americans are struggling more than ever to find and maintain housing they can afford. The climate crisis is only making things worse. In this series, Shelterforce takes a deeper look at the ...

A decade after city officials promised to cut flood risks in the Edgemere neighborhood, critics say it remains just as vulnerable. Baba Ndanani has lived in one of New York City’s most flood-prone ...

Housing problems like mildew, lead, unheated homes, and more plague low-income homeowners and renters alike—and many of these issues are only growing with time. What laws have housing advocates pushed ...

We can upkeep homes without punishing low-income residents. Here are some lessons for change, and cities already doing that ...

It was more than a decade ago when the National Housing Institute published a landmark report on shared-equity homeownership, or resale-restricted, owner-occupied housing for lower-income households ...

Tiny houses are a step up from shelter beds, but are they also a distraction from real, obvious solutions to our homelessness epidemic? If you hang out with people who enjoy things like “clean eating, ...

At an individual level, the 30 percent standard and the residual-income standard can produce very different results. But as a regional measure of affordability problems, they’re not so far apart. The ...