Homelessness and Housing

In the years since the Great Recession, when housing prices dramatically fell, Wall Street investors have been buying large numbers of single-family homes to use as rentals. As of 2022,…

Prioritization tools are needed to address systemic bias in financial assistance programs.

Managing a chronic illness while homeless can be an impossible challenge. This was the case for Rosa Williams, 60, who was living in her car while trying to manage stage…

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In Boston, a multiracial, multicultural, multilingual community is organizing to preserve Dorchester as a neighborhood that provides affordable housing for all.

“Philanthropy can be a linchpin, capable of bringing together the public sector’s authority and agenda-setting power and the private sector’s financial resources and dynamism.”…

Two years after a public housing complex was hit by Hurricane Ida in Louisiana, residents are still without answers on what comes next.

Suspensions from school can derail students’ chances to succeed in class, and the practice has been linked to negative consequences including lower test scores.

Families on the Edge was published August 15. (Photo from MIT Press via The Daily Yonder) Homelessness looks different depending on where y…

Homeowners nationwide are finding that insurance companies don’t want to cover their properties due to climate risks. The problem will only get worse.

Ten years ago, as a former federal employee, I had the opportunity to be a part of building the case for wide-scale adoption of Housing First across the federal government…

A group of researchers at the Department of Housing and Urban Development have been quietly developing an idea that could fundamentally upend the nearly 50-year-old housing voucher program, which helps more than…