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We're Making Housing Harder to Preserve Than It Should Be — Shelterforce
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (773+ words) From the Field Community Development Field To maintain older housing stock, aligning programs to address building deterioration before it is severe offers big payoffs, preserving both homes and housing affordability." In older industrial cities'commonly known as legacy cities'most housing affordability…...
"I Hate How Quick People Are to Judge": Art Spotlights Voices From Homeless Shelters
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (347+ words) Art Arts & Culture Alex Strada worked with 300 shelter staff members and residents to create "Public Address." The project will travel across New York City's five boroughs. This month, I visited Lt. Petrosino Square in downtown Manhattan, the center of a…...
Can Condo Conversions Deliver Long-Term Affordability?
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (653+ words) A project in Portland, Oregon, aims to turn aging rentals into affordable condos, offering lower price points and a path to ownership. But that affordability currently rests on temporary subsidies and market goodwill. For tenants who can't buy'and future buyers…...
Our Housing System Assumes Homelessness
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (517+ words) Our lack of affordable housing isn't a failure on the part of the people seeking housing'it's a failure of the market. The sooner we realize that, the sooner we can fix it. Author of Bittersweet Lane: Creating Home(s) in the…...
Program Mismatches Keep Repair Funds Unused
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (342+ words) From the Field Healthy Housing A Massachusetts initiative uncovers how fragmented programs make healthy homes harder to achieve'and helps local leaders reduce the friction. Director of Health Equity, MACDC More from This series December 19, 2025 | Matt Kreis December 11, 2025 | Lara Heard In…...
RAD Plan in Chelsea Will Build in Mixed-Income Housing—But Disrupt Low-Income Seniors
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (690+ words) From the Field Public Housing A public housing redevelopment plan in Manhattan will add mixed-income housing'but some of the first wave of tenants who would have to leave are refusing to go. [RELATED ARTICLE: Does RAD Privatize Public Housing?] "I'm…...
Tenants' Rights and Taking Out the Trash
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (621+ words) From the FieldInnovations in Community Ownership A conversation about what it means'or could mean'to have resident control over property management. More from This series October 9, 2025 | Jill Webb October 3, 2025 | Adriana Abizadeh-Barbour and Karen Black Susanne Schindler: I'm glad we're expanding on…...
This Multi-Issue Interfaith Organizing Group Has Supported Six Housing Co-ops for Decades
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (561+ words) The Naugatuck Valley Project grew out of factory closures and layoffs in the 1980s. But this interfaith and labor coalition also helped to not only found but sustain a group of affordable housing cooperatives in suburban Connecticut. More from This series…...
From Empty Spaces to Community Places: Why Nonprofits Belong on the Ground Floor of Affordable Housing
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (535+ words) From the Field Nonprofits Across the country, the need for good quality, affordable housing is growing. As communities respond with large-scale developments'often supported by federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTCs)'what happens on the ground floor of these projects…...
More Land, More Ways, for More People: What's New in Community Ownership
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (390+ words) Creative problem solving is pushing community ownership models forward. Illustration by The Linocut LLC More from This series September 19, 2025 | Frances Nguyen September 17, 2025 | Brandon Duong Folks working in this space are not innovating for innovation's sake, but making serious attempts to…...