The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program awards billions in tax credits each year to private market investors and developers who promise to build or preserve affordable housing. But the ...

While chaos reigns at the federal level, it’s up to states and local governments to creatively hold the line, fill the gaps, and figure out new ways forward. Drawing on examples from around the ...

Homelessness services administrators share their views on how proposed cuts, rapid changes to funding guidelines, and delays ...

Preventing unnecessary evictions is more important than ever for local governments. Here are some of the approaches being ...

Cooperative housing and community land trusts (CLT) are often posited as alternative paths for achieving community ownership of homes. But these two housing types can also be combined. Such a ...

The financial intricacies involved in building affordable housing can be difficult to understand. This explainer breaks down the foundational concepts. Total development cost, or TDC: The summed costs ...

With rising insurance, debt, and operating costs outpacing rents and subsidies, affordable housing is becoming harder to ...

After a years-long, tenant-led effort, Louisville will use a new tool to analyze whether a proposed housing development can meet a neighborhood’s housing needs and income levels. If it doesn’t, the ...

Two bills passed with rare 80-percent-plus majorities in the Senate and House appear to be headed to a joint conference committee. The outcome could be a broad update to federal housing and community ...

While chaos reigns at the federal level, it’s up to states and local governments to creatively hold the line, fill the gaps, and figure out new ways forward. Drawing on examples from around the ...