Housing

Coverage of low-income and affordable housing solutions, housing developments, and resources for the unhoused.

Community Development Financial Institutions help rural Northern communities fund affordable housing, education, support small business growth

Rural communities often experience a lack of capital access due to bank mergers, or community banks leaving their areas. CDFIs step in to bridge the gap by providing crucial capital, workshops, and referrals to rural communities — funding affordable housing, high-quality education, and community development with small business growth.

Latest in Housing
Rare bipartisan housing victory, but Americans still can’t afford housing

Congress near approval of what could become the most significant housing legislation in decades, but even supporters say it doesn’t do enough to ease America’s housing affordability crunch.

How early introduction to alternative transportation can impact habits

Fort Wayne is a city with a car-centric mindset. Early exposure to biking and transit could help, but a lack of density could limit long-term habit change.

Neighborhood nonprofit rehabs houses to help new homeowners and break the rent cycle

Edison Initiatives was formed to help others become homeowners and build wealth.

As housing costs rise, CEDAM’s TIF guide frames the way for communities to utilize and personalize tax incentives to meet housing needs

CEDAM has released a new housing TIF guide to help Michigan communities understand and apply tax increment financing as a tool to support local housing development and affordability goals.

Program that has supported more than 533,000 affordable rental homes in rural America getting phased out

Unless the government reinvigorates the program or replaces it with something else, much of rural America’s affordable rental housing could gradually disappear.

Kansas City neighborhood is transforming neglected housing and keeping control local

Since 2018, the Lykins Neighborhood Association has been taking on ambitious projects including using a state law to take control of abandoned homes.

New ‘solution’ to student homelessness: parking lot for students to sleep in their cars

Forty-eight percent of college students experience housing insecurity, meaning 'challenges that prevent them from having a safe, affordable, and consistent place to live'

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