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An overlooked group in discussions of rental affordability are households who occupy a unit without payment of rent. Non-cash renters fall into one of three broad categories…

In the vocabulary of urban affairs, the term “slum” is among the most powerful. “No word in the language,” wrote Charles Abrams in the 1960s, “has called up more horrible…

Lately there’s been a lot of excitement in US housing policy circles about the idea of social housing. Inspired by what they have seen in Europe, advocates of social housing…

Public housing is the oldest and largest supplier of permanently affordable housing in the US, but it has often been left out of the conversation about a new “social housing…

As programs that address the housing needs of middle-income renters become increasingly common in an environment of limited resources, it is crucial to understand the…

Housing affordability challenges have crept increasingly up the income scale and have left a record-high share of middle-income renter households with cost burdens. In…

In response to housing affordability challenges rapidly climbing the income scale, state and local governments have adopted policies and programs to explicitly address the…

No one did more to build the non-profit housing sector in the United States than Bob Whittlesey, who died on February 27 of this year at the age of 101. Contrary to the…

Across the United States, many institutions, private businesses, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and citizens have come together to create and govern public and…

Single-family zoning has a target on its back. Long condemned for creating suburban sprawl and excluding Black Americans, immigrants, and low-income people from residential…