While chaos reigns at the federal level, it’s up to states and local governments to creatively hold the line, fill the gaps, and figure out new ways forward. Drawing on examples from around the ...
The proposed FY 2027 budget for rural housing shows improvements from last year, but still fundamentally fails to provide the support needed for small towns and rural areas to thrive. Rural America is ...
Nearly two years after the state of New York adopted a law that prohibits landlords from evicting tenants without a just cause, 19 municipalities have opted into its protections. The state’s Good ...
While chaos reigns at the federal level, it’s up to states and local governments to creatively hold the line, fill the gaps, and figure out new ways forward. Drawing on examples from around the ...
On Oct. 2, 2025, MORE Justice, a Columbia, South Carolina–based network of faith congregations working for housing justice, held a press conference to push for passage of a state bill now under ...
A commonly used billing system can allow landlords to quietly shift building utility costs onto tenants. Tenants say it’s time to break open the black box. When Joe Porter, a 29-year-old video editor, ...
A victory in Kansas City suggests that the tactics of organized labor can work for tenants. Tenants in Kansas City are declaring victory after eight months on rent strike—the longest such action in ...
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 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program awards billions in tax credits each year to private market investors and developers who promise to build or preserve affordable housing. But the ...
The financial intricacies involved in building affordable housing can be difficult to understand. This explainer breaks down the foundational concepts. Total development cost, or TDC: The summed costs ...
In Canada, more than half of all housing on community land trusts is cooperative housing. In the U.S., that number is less ...