For such a commonly used term, “affordable housing” means a lot of different things to different people and in different contexts.

Los Angeles imposed a tax on luxury home sales to generate millions for housing efforts in the city. How is it working so far ...

Affordable housing advocates are looking for common ground with the Trump administration, but they are prepared to defend ...

As the LA fire burns on, online rental listings are skyrocketing in price, despite laws against such hikes. Tenants are ...

On Oct. 1, 2024, tenants at two Kansas City, Missouri, apartment complexes started a rent strike. Residents of Independence Towers and Quality Hill Towers, organized under KC Tenants and a newly ...

Miriam Axel-Lute is CEO/editor-in-chief of Shelterforce. She lives in Albany, New York, and is a proud small-city aficionado.

Residents have already seen online listings skyrocketing in price—despite laws against such hikes. With fires still raging, LA and Pasadena tenants are demanding protections against rent raises and ...

As HUD secretary, Scott Turner would oversee billions in housing aid, but as a Texas state legislator he voted against protections for poor tenants and has called government assistance “one of the ...

This poem is included in my poetry full-length debut, The Rent Eats First. The book focuses on my experience as a housing justice lawyer, situating that experience within the privileges and inequities ...