Housing with preconditions means more people will cycle through shelters, jails, and the streets, fueling efforts to ...

Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy contends in his book, Together: The Healing Power of Connection in a Sometimes Lonely ...

Healthy Homes Ordinance, many of New Orleans’s “certified habitable” apartments still have leaks and mold. What went wrong?

Across the country, tenants and lawmakers are pushing for better standards around habitability: mold, cooling, and more. How ...

Housing problems like inadequate heating, water damage, and mold can mess with your health. It's also making the U.S. housing ...

Whether your home is safe and suitable for healthy living depends on a variety of factors. Shelterforce puts habitability under the lens to show how problems like inadequate heating, water damage, and ...

The OZ program unleashed billions in private capital. Whether it lifts neighborhoods or just investors hinges on who’s steering the money and how well they can navigate the system. Now that Congress ...

Pransky was an activist lawyer who fought for and defended both tenants and rent control policies in New Jersey. McKee organized in New York City, founding multiple organizations and helping to defend ...

Tawanna Brown is a Midwesterner (born and raised in Chicago), who moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to be supportive of aging parents. She lives in metaphors, embraces love letters as her life mission, and ...