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Baltimore, Boston, and Cleveland voters recently showed what happens when leaders loosen zoning and modernize permitting, while investing in community-scale development at the same time. Federal ...

Development should come with affordability. Here's the case for inclusionary housing, and why opponents aren't seeing the full picture. Every morning in San Francisco, before most of us are awake, ...

Some strategies aim to increase access to the existing system, while others try to make the system itself return fairer outcomes. It's important to know which kind we're using. The contemporary ...

The Continuum of Care Program, the federal government’s biggest pool of funds for housing homeless people, will continue with its original funding plan—pending a final decision from the courts. After ...

Wages have long been out of step with housing costs. Santa Fe hopes to change that by tying minimum wage increases to HUD’s Fair Market Rent estimates. What happens when you connect wages to local ...

Rising costs, rent arrears, and aging properties are forcing nonprofit affordable housing developers to rethink what they can afford to own.

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 ...

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, ...

For effective and inclusive community planning, it’s important that community development groups and local governments work closely with residents who will be affected by the proposals and projects ...

A year after she left Chicago’s notorious Robert Taylor Homes public housing development, 30-year-old Lee-Lee Henderson said she was ready to return. “I’d rather live in Robert Taylor,” she answered ...