With rising insurance, debt, and operating costs outpacing rents and subsidies, affordable housing is becoming harder to ...

We dodged the bullet on Donald Trump’s proposed radical dismantling of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...

Housing funding programs are notoriously fragmented. One way to make limited housing dollars go further is to improve the systems distributing them. While chaos reigns at the federal level, it’s up to ...

Homelessness services administrators share their views on how proposed cuts, rapid changes to funding guidelines, and delays ...

The plan slashes billions from federal housing and community development programs. We break down the numbers and why it ...

Taxes on controversial activities are often appealing ways to fund affordable housing. Here's how that's been working in four ...

Today in the United States, the average house costs five times what the average American earns in income and accessibility to homeownership is at 40-year lows. How can policy change this picture? One ...

What could your community do if your city or state owned its own bank? In 2020, the nonprofit organization Action Center on Race & the Economy published a study showing that state and local ...

As federal funding streams face cuts, the idea of public banks is gaining ground as a tool for states and localities to finance community development.