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Property Insurance Is Getting Less Expensive. Affordable Housing Providers Still Have Few Options.

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They Take Healthcare to the Streets. In Phoenix, That's Getting Harder

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Homelessness Experts Want Housing Without Strings Attached

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Homelessness in an Age of Criminalization

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Public Housing Tenants Sue Over Use of Invasive Monitoring Devices

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How City-Funded Organizing Helped Evanston Tenants Take on Private-Equity Landlord

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Enterprise Is Selling Its Stake in the Lender It Said It Couldn’t Control

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How Will the New Housing Bill Impact Federal Disaster Response?

9

What’s at Risk Under the CRA Proposal and How Communities Can Respond

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Will the ROAD to Housing Act Deliver on Its Promise?

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Building Homes and Communities for When We Age, a Shelterforce Webinar

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Control Isn’t Care: Why Recovery and Housing Systems Fail Without Autonomy

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New Models Emerge to Facilitate Community Land Ownership

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From Emergency Response to Building Power: The Story of LA’s Rent Brigade

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What Cleveland’s Fight Reveals About Challenging Extractive Ownership

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Pets Are Family—Shelters Should Not Ask People to Leave Them Behind

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How Aging and Homeless Services Can Meet in the Middle

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To Speed Up Rural Housing Delivery, Stop Making Partnerships About You

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Can Social Housing Deliver? Los Angeles and Seattle Pursue Two Distinct Paths

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Will New York’s Source of Income Protections Survive Legal Challenges?

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Can Atlanta Make Tax-Increment Financing Work in an Equitable Way?

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Housing Bill Could Boost Community Land Trusts, But Implementation Is Critical

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The Clock Is Ticking on Affordable Housing

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Federal Rule Change Denies Immigrant Businesses Access to Guaranteed Loans

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HUD Funding Notice Upends Housing Counseling Assistance

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What Happens When a Community Is Designed to Bring Generations Together?

27

Can a Private Sector Fund Preserve Affordable Housing in Charlotte?

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To Keep Childcare Affordable, This Center Offers Care Workers Free Housing

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Portland’s Struggle to Advance Social Housing Gets a Temporary Boost

30

Can Tenant Organizing Build Political Power? The DSA Experience

31

Banks for the People: Why Federal Home Loan Banks Need a Reset

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When a Community Grows Old Together

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Courts to City Housing Departments: Pay for Accessibility Up Front—Or Pay More Later

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What Does A Good Housing Impact Investment Look Like? A Shelterforce webinar

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Older Adults Are Fighting for Housing Justice—And They Refuse to Be Pushed Aside

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For Older Black Homeowners, a Lifetime of Housing Discrimination Adds Up

37

World’s Largest Worker Cooperative Network Seeks New Allies

38

The Accessibility Rules Were There. The Enforcement Wasn’t.

39

The Wobbly Infrastructure Behind Aging in Rural Communities

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Everyone's Talking About Private Equity in Housing: Here's What You Need to Know

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For Older Renters, the Housing Crisis Comes with Higher Stakes

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When Home Equity Isn’t Enough: The Challenge Facing House-Rich, Income-Poor Older Adults

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See No Evil: Oregon Retreats on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Initiative

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Everyone Supports Aging in Place. But Can We Actually Deliver It?

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Housing for an Older America: From ‘Aging in Place’ to ‘Aging in Community’

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The Population Is Getting Older. Our Housing System Isn’t Ready.

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Proposed Federal Rule Would Undercut Fannie and Freddie’s Duty to Serve Underserved Markets

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Should Everyone Have a Decent Home? Obscure HUD Document Suggests No

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Laboratories of Democracy: Emerging State and Local Policy Visions, a Shelterforce Webinar

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How HUD Is Seeking to Make Fighting Housing Discrimination Even Harder

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HUD’s Work Requirement and Time Limit Proposals Put Rental Assistance at Risk

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Federal Grant Rule Change Threatens Community Access to Public Funds

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Linking Immigrant, Worker, and Tenant Struggles to Build Community Power

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Are NYC’s Rent-Stabilized Buildings Really in Crisis?

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Affordable Housing Financing Is Overpriced, But It Doesn’t Have to Be

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Congress Passes Broad Housing Package After Years of Gridlock

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Poem: Exodus

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How State Coalitions Are Advancing Community Ownership of Housing

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HUD’s FY 2027 Spending Bill Funds Vouchers—But Would Make Them Harder to Get

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Unsupported Housing: When Stability Isn’t Enough

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Airbnb’s Lobbying Campaign Meets Resistance Across World Cup Host Cities

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Will the World Cup Fuel Arrests of Homeless People in Atlanta?

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A Historic Black Memphis Neighborhood Turns to a CLT to Avoid Displacement

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Could Massachusetts Get Rent Control Back After a 32-Year Ban?

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Unlikely Partners: How Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago Came to Be

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Advocates in the South Get Organized to Advance Tenants Rights

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In Eugene, Housing Advocates Call for a Tenant Right to Purchase Act

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What Does a Solidarity Economy Approach to Housing Look Like?

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In the Shadow of Grants Pass, Some Communities Reject Homeless Crackdowns

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What NYCHA's Heat Pump Strategy Says About the Future of Green Affordable Housing

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Supply Reforms Put Housing on the Agenda, Even in Red States

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How a Landlord Tried to Silence Tenants and Stop a Shelterforce Story

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Houston Artists and Homeless Residents Collaborate to Create Public Art

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State and Cities Advance Affordability by Lowering Utility Costs

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From Protest to Power: Housing, Capital, and Rev. Jackson’s Unfinished Agenda

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In Brazil, Organized Favelas Turn to CLTs to Protect Their Land

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Stalled in State Houses, Tenant Unions Organize Against Landlords Directly

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The White House Rural Housing Budget: The Good, the Bad, and the Bigger Picture

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When the Feds Step Back on Fair Housing, Can States Step Up?

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How CLTs are Powering Co-op Growth in Canada: Lessons for the U.S.?

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Making Homeownership Affordable: Bringing Fannie and Freddie Back to Mission

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Supporting Milwaukee’s Youth Through Housing and Opportunity

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Avoiding Evictions: How State and Local Policy Can Keep Tenants in Their Homes

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States Can Put the Brakes on Landlord Collusion and Junk Fees

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Breaking Point: Why the Affordable Housing Business Model Is Unraveling

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How States Can Build Housing Together: A Proposal to Create Joint Authorities

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Making Money for Housing Go Further

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Will Tucson Take Back Its Power—Literally?

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Are Dedicated ‘Sin Taxes’ a Useful Path for Affordable Housing Funding?

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How We Rewrote a Tax Incentive to Encourage More Affordable Housing

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NYC’s New Housing Approval Process Faces First Tests

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The Federal Housing Bill: ‘A Bunch of Tweaks, But Good Ones’

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Property Taxes Aren’t the Cause of Our Housing Crisis, They’re a Solution to It

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Free Land, Retail Rents, and Other Ways Cities Are Cutting Reliance on Federal Housing Funds

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We’re Making Housing Harder to Preserve Than It Should Be

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Acting Locally: States, Counties, and Cities on the Front Lines

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They Lost Their Homes, But Built a Movement

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Cohousing Promises Lower Costs. Why Hasn’t It Worked in the US?

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Tax Increment Financing Harms Cities—Let’s Rein It In

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Safe and Sheltered: How Tenant Organizers Protect Their Neighbors in Minneapolis