Community ownership isn’t just about affordability. It’s about dignity, belonging, and control. It’s about breaking cycles of ...

Connecticut's Naugatuck Valley Project grew out of factory closures in the 1980s and has helped to found and sustain six ...

As insurance companies and lenders increasingly factor climate risk into their strategies, we may see a resurgence of ...

A community land trust in Denver combines community organizing, traditional CLT development, and more unusual roles in an ...

A commonly used billing system can allow landlords to quietly shift building utility costs onto tenants. Tenants say it’s ...

Sometimes disasters open a space for bigger and faster positive change. In Lahaina, Hawai'i, after the devastating fires in ...

Andrew Cuomo’s recent attack on fellow mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for living in a rent stabilized apartment plays on one of the oldest tropes detractors use to criticize the policy: that it ...

The Supreme Court ruling gave cities new leeway to criminalize homelessness. In Oakland, advocates say it’s fueled more forceful encampment sweeps and a rollback of earlier efforts at cooperation. In ...

Most communities lack a way of collecting real-time data on whether landlords are complying with rules. A rental registry could change that. Being a landlord is a unique line of work. In few sectors ...

I would not say that I enjoy challenging widely held assumptions, but I consider it a useful thing to do, particularly when I believe that they are based on faulty or questionable assumptions. In the ...