OPA is a policy that gives tenants some specific rights when their building goes up for sale. Here we describe what they ...

Development should come with affordability. Here's the case for inclusionary housing, and why opponents aren't seeing the ...

Corianne Payton Scally, Ph.D., is CEO of HOUSERS, LLC, conducting research on affordable housing and community development policy and practice at the federal, state and local levels. In this post, we ...

We can upkeep homes without punishing low-income residents. Here are some lessons for change, and cities already doing that ...

After learning it was one of the city’s most prolific evictors, a for-profit affordable housing provider created a tenant retention program that’s being touted as a model for other developers. An ...

Shelterforce published more than 140 pieces this year. It came as no surprise that most of our top stories were about federal ...

Tenant screening software has become an industry standard. It sifts through publicly available and proprietary data to gauge the suitability of potential renters. An applicant’s rent-paying history is ...

As housing activists and academics who conduct research on issues of housing and displacement, we have encountered major problems with Eviction Lab’s practices. There is perhaps no more influential ...

Years ago, officials in dozens of cities showed interest in alternatives to the traditional security deposit. That momentum ...

When we rethink the problem as one of political voice rather than community consensus, it opens up new, innovative techniques to determine public priorities. When it comes to community development ...

Tiny houses are a step up from shelter beds, but are they also a distraction from real, obvious solutions to our homelessness epidemic? If you hang out with people who enjoy things like “clean eating, ...

This Under the Lens series explores the growing use of technology in the housing world. Can the proper guardrails be put in place so “innovative” tools don’t make the housing crisis worse? Top ...