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

After a judge blocked a federal funding freeze, the Trump administration rescinded a memo that started it all.

President Trump’s order that would freeze already-appropriated federal funding has been delayed until Feb. 3. The order has ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Los Angeles has imposed an additional tax on luxury home sales to generate millions for housing efforts in the city. Shelterforce checks in on where the money has gone, and what’s to come. While it ...

Decades of increasing costs and deferred maintenance could lead to people losing their homes, unless changes are made. Since condos became popular in the 1970s, more than 11 million condominiums have ...

Kansas City tenants launched a rent strike in October. With a new administration coming into office, it might be too late for a federal rent cap—but they're still pushing for better conditions. On Oct ...