The U.S. owns 250 million acres of public lands, and it has the authority to sell or lease limited parcels for housing.

The president has pushed for the possible internment of people experiencing homelessness. We take a look at what states have ...

We don’t make a distinction between investors and speculators, which makes it harder to identify harmful behavior and find ...

More and more cities and states have plans to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in housing. Here's how we can avoid possible ...

For 50 years, Shelterforce has been at the forefront of affordable housing and community development, championing stories of resilience, innovation, and advocacy that have helped shape communities ...

The Ebony Beach Club was supposed to open in the 1950s, but the city used eminent domain to seize the site. Los Angeles artist Autumn Breon talks about how the story inspired her multidisciplinary art ...

Schlonn is CEO/publisher of Shelterforce. She has more than 15 years of experience in publicity, media training, community relations, and strategic planning. Before joining Shelterforce, Schlonn was ...

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

Many affordable housing developers worry Trump’s proposed taxes on imports and crackdown on immigration will be detrimental to the industry. Others hope deregulation reduces development costs enough ...

Shelby R. King is Shelterforce's investigative reporter. She began her reporting career in 2010 covering cops/public safety and has been writing about housing and community development since 2014.

For such a commonly used term, “affordable housing” means a lot of different things to different people and in different contexts. At the most basic level, housing is “affordable” if, after you pay ...