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States that are adding more housing and approving more permits are seeing their birth rates go up.
To address the housing crisis, we need to pick up the pace of development without sacrificing commitments to low-income residents and environmental protections.
Over the years, Los Angeles voters have approved billions in homeless funding — and created layer upon layer of independent institutions.
An environmental law has been a powerful tool for people seeking to block construction. Lawmakers may be poised to change it.
The New Hampshire legislature is considering dozens of policies aimed at making housing more affordable, a priority for first-year Gov. Kelly Ayotte. Some policies are gaining bipartisan support, but debates over local control still rage.
Devastated by fire, then shut down by COVID-19, the school district in Paradise, Calif., has emerged as a leader in keeping homeless students in classrooms.
Atlanta is achieving notable success with its data-driven efforts to build and preserve housing, which the city sees as key to revitalizing distressed neighborhoods and confronting social challenges.
Philadelphia, San Francisco and Berkeley, Calif., have also banned algorithms that can lead to price-gouging, with similar proposals brewing in other major cities.
The administration is shifting resources away from Housing First, the long-established approach of getting individuals into supportive housing as the first priority.
San Antonio created a housing strategy that’s made it more affordable than most other large cities.
Residents of mobile-home parks have seen costs rise as investors buy up properties. Lawmakers in several states are looking to add more guardrails.
HUD has warned local housing authorities that a $5 billion fund for emergency rental assistance is nearly out of cash, putting 60,000 households at risk of eviction.
A historian makes that argument in a new book. But maybe we just don’t want — or need — to move as much as we used to.
Mayor Matt Mahan said too many people are dying on the streets. His proposal would push people into services after they refuse shelter three times in 18 months.
An upsurge of corporate purchases of single-family homes has sparked legislation in at least half a dozen states this year. Legislators hope to preserve homeownership as a path to building wealth for middle-class families and limit the number of properties owned by large corporations.