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

Decades of increasing costs and deferred maintenance could lead to condo owners losing their homes, unless changes are made.

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

A lease agreement with the city of Sacramento allowed encampment residents to stay indefinitely while they sought permanent ...

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.

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 ...

Shelterforce has been at the forefront of affordable housing and community development, championing stories of resilience, innovation, and advocacy that have shaped communities across the nation.

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 ...