The Know-Your-Rights mural in Richmond, California, includes pointers on rent control, just cause eviction, and fair chance ...

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. I was 4 years old the first ...

Prior to the press conference, members had attended trainings on working with media and conducting effective phone banking ...

A tenant opportunity to purchase act (TOPA) is a policy that gives tenants some specific rights when their building goes up for sale. Learn what it covers and what it doesn’t in this video. When a ...

Here's what happens when leaders loosen zoning permitting and invest in community-scale development at the same time.

Development should come with affordability. Here's the case for inclusionary housing, and why opponents aren't seeing the full picture. Every morning in San Francisco, before most of us are awake, ...

Federal programs and cultural attitudes that helped launch a majority of the large limited-equity co-ops across the nation are long gone, but at a smaller scale, this model of resident-controlled, ...

As cities across the country consider giving tenants the right of first refusal, municipalities must be meticulous in crafting policies that preserve and expand tenants' ability to form housing ...

For effective and inclusive community planning, it’s important that community development groups and local governments work closely with residents who will be affected by the proposals and projects ...

Tenant screening software has become an industry standard. It sifts through publicly available and proprietary data to gauge the suitability of potential renters. An applicant’s rent-paying history is ...

Some say yes. But simply making it easier to build will not reach those who are unhoused. It takes some serious chutzpah to assert that the answer to homelessness is obvious, as a piece published ...