Homelessness and Housing

While many people go to the theater to relax and be entertained after a busy day, the moviegoers at The Nightlight Cinema go there not to get away from it…

Twenty-two months after much of the country shut down at the start of the COVID-19 crisis, renters remain disproportionately affected by the economic fallout. Even before the pandemic, many renters…

Many older homeowners have accumulated substantial home equity in recent years, but they have limited opportunities to extract it. Simplifying the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program could help increase older homeowners’ access to home equity and alleviate housing cost burden.

White House National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard detailed a new plan for unlocking housing affordability at a time when homelessness has hit record highs, rental costs are eating a disproportionate share of people’s incomes, and homeownership becomes increasingly unattainable.

The number of people enduring unsheltered homelessness rose in most communities across the country last year. Homelessness response systems are working diligently to rehouse people but they face an uphill climb due to increasing…

Black people have often been at the forefront of movements for social change across the United States, both past and present, from protesting racial segregation to organizing against police brutality.…

Reflecting on my first year as the inaugural Executive Director of the Phoenix Foundation, a Black-led non-profit organization dedicated to serving our Chicago community, I’m deeply entrenched in the complex dynamics…

Better-targeted policies and programs could boost Black homeownership and reduce racial homeownership disparities, despite high interest rates.

“If we want a change, we have to be quite intentional. We’ve got to tell the damn truth that the system we currently have is oppressive.” That’s how Michael McAfee,…

“If you want to make progress fighting the opioid epidemic, tackling homelessness is one route to do that.”…

States prepare to use Medicaid for rental assistance for the first time.

Public service systems need to do a better job of working with parents to support homeless children, a new study shows.