A new report describes the path to social housing in New York through 20 policy proposals, from overhauling the property tax code and abolishing the city’s tax lien sale to cracking down on landlord ...

With the nation in the midst of a seemingly intractable affordable housing crisis, new possibilities are becoming visible. Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed a number of policies to make homes ...

Boston Road provides 154 units of housing for formerly homeless people, many of them seniors and living with HIV/AIDS, as well as low-income working adults from the ...

The opening scenes of the award-winning Brazilian film "City of God" (2002) portray a newly constructed housing complex situated on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Subsequently, this complex evolves ...

Chicago could set a national example with its social housing program, included in the bond issue approved on April 19. Credit: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Whether it was testimony from a who ...

Conversations about social housing often become polarized around examples with widely differing outcomes: robust and fully funded social housing in places like Vienna, Austria, or on the other hand, ...

Nearly half of U.S. renters struggle to make rent. Social housing offers a permanently affordable solution for working people. Illustration by Kazimir Iskander “The private market cannot provide ...

My work in Seattle on affordable housing issues dates to 1969. After graduating with a master’s degree in urban planning from the University of Washington, I became the first housing planner at the ...

Councilmembers are weighing a slate of bills to expand programs and resources that follow the model of social housing—deeply affordable homes built “for public good” rather than profit, what ...

Every day, our organizations hear from people across Seattle facing the same crisis: Ever-increasing housing costs that rise far faster than wages, leaving families desperately looking for a new place ...