The Family Self-Sufficiency Program has benefits and potential that make the program worth funding—despite the administration ...

Zoning reforms have divided NY's tenant advocates. Loosening the city’s anti-housing regime is essential for building social ...

To protect themselves from ICE, many families are staying home from work; tenant organizers in Minneapolis, Chicago, and Los Angeles are pushing for eviction moratoriums to keep them safe. Taylor Kohn ...

Conversations on housing costs often focus on zoning rules, but two new studies say declining affordability is due more to rising income.

A tenant organizing push in the Twin Cities has support from labor unions representing more than 25,000 workers. Shelterforce is an independent publication that serves (and sometimes challenges) ...

Organizer Erika Castro has turned the barriers she faced early in life into a pathway for leadership and immigration rights advocacy.

With threats to homelessness programs, housing advocates are combining research and case-level data to show why supportive ...

For more than a century, American reformers have struggled to remedy the problems of poverty in the places where low-income people live. At first, these social improvers could muster only a few ...

Thousands of companies offer tenant screening tools that promise to make life easier for landlords and property managers. But reports show that the data these companies use is often riddled with ...

After learning it was one of the city’s most prolific evictors, a for-profit affordable housing provider created a tenant retention program that’s being touted as a model for other developers.