Homelessness and Housing

Homeowners in mostly white communities prefer to risk another flood rather than move to a more diverse neighborhood on safer ground.

Recent efforts by the Detroit school district are helping to identify more of its homeless students, but researchers say there’s still an undercount.

Two disaster response experts mapped who gets FEMA buyouts and where they go. It turns out, they don’t go far.

When it comes to reducing flood risk, FEMA’s home buyout program is working. It may also be fueling segregation.

What if government, the philanthropic sector, and community advocates could pull a policy lever and advance housing, climate, and racial justice all at once? That could happen when the Department…

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Though accessory dwelling units have been around for centuries, a recent survey found that 71% of Americans were unfamiliar with the concept.

Medical bills were the primary source of debt among people in the study. Research shows that medical debt burdens millions of Americans: Depending on how you define “medical debt,” studies…

When Older Americans Month was established in 1963, only 17 million living Americans had reached their 65th birthday. A meeting in April 1963 between President John F.Kennedy and members of the National Council of Senior Citizens led to designating […]…

Donna Hufnagle, a social worker with Virginia Supportive Housing (VSH), is on a mission to provide a safety net for a dozen people whose lives, through some combination of housing…

When U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman visited his childhood home in Harlem’s East River Houses last winter, he was struck by a piece of graffiti at the entrance. The tag read, simply, “Help.”…

The state must invest to ensure community college students can have the same housing support that university students already receive.