In Los Angeles, as people organized in response to wildfires and ICE raids, a new group of tenant supporters—The Rent Brigade ...
The for-profit subsidiary had been pressed over lending to corporate buyers of manufactured home parks. The sale will seed an ...
A poem by housing attorney Eric Sirota that highlights the existential absurdity of our system’s treatment of low-income renters. “So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ...
Tenants in Cleveland's Shaker Square neighborhood, along with many other allies, fought their neglectful corporate landlord, and won. However, it took so long, half the residents were displaced. After ...
City redevelopment subsidies siphon tens of billions of dollars away from public services nationwide. Here are some ways, based on what has worked in Chicago, to fight back. In every state across the ...
On Sept. 4, HUD—which had 35 percent of its staff slashed last year—proposed and then backed away from centralizing major ...
While chaos reigns at the federal level, it’s up to states and local governments to creatively hold the line, fill the gaps, and figure out new ways forward. Drawing on examples from around the ...
When Chicago tenants on rent strike agreed to stop speaking publicly about their landlord as part of settling their eviction cases, they honored the agreement. They never dreamed the landlord's ...
A proposal from two federal banking regulators would reduce both the scale and scope of federal Community Reinvestment Act oversight. Here’s what could change and how communities can respond. Comments ...
A Native-led CDFI is showing what happens when small-business lending receives relationship-based, culturally rooted support. Community development practitioners know this pattern well: Capital can ...