As the city prepares for the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics two years later, longtime residents are being forced out.

He and a partner were going to build “millions of houses” for poor people in the developing world. They built virtually no units, left investors high and dry, and sued creditors rather than pay them.

The long-predicted nationwide wave of lockouts is finally cresting. A report from New York City housing court

Rents in New York City and around the country are at record levels. Is this forever?

Esplanade Gardens was trumpeted as a way to build wealth for middle-class Black New Yorkers. But its crumbling infrastructure shows how the government gave up on affordable housing.

Why labor can’t compete with real estate

In Indianapolis, like many American cities, the long shadow of segregation continues to punish Black neighborhoods—to the disproportionate benefit of white landlords.

Simple overall stats don’t show the truth of the housing crisis.

In the 1980s, a government program helped Black families buy new homes amid fires and flight. Now that generation is moving south, as the neighborhood faces a new threat: affordability.

As pandemic-era tenant protections end, cities are reconsidering rent control as a means to keeping people in their homes. St. Paul offers an example.

Tens of thousands of unhoused people in Los Angeles County suffered through a massive downpour this week. Now comes the bitter cold.

Delos famously installed vitamin C showers in Leonardo DiCaprio’s condo. Now it’s selling “wellness solutions” for low-income housing and earning millions in public funds to put air purifiers in schools.

Ohlone people in Berkeley grapple with a California court decision to allow development on a sacred shell-mound site.

Sheryll Cashin’s “White Space, Black Hood” shows how economic discrimination combines with racial injustice in America’s housing policy.

Orlando, Florida, has become the epicenter of America’s housing crisis

Everyone talks about universal pre-K and childcare, and they should. But the housing money in the bill—while still not nearly enough—would at least start to address a true crisis.

Climate resilience efforts tend to focus on homeowners, but tenants are much more vulnerable.

Los Angeles wants the unhoused out of its combustible canyons. But no one ever suggests banning the rich from those same hills.

The latest federal policy, like its predecessors, was written with holes big enough for many housing-insecure renters to fall through. These are the stories from the mess.

Affluent Southern Californians are funding a massive effort to criminalize the unhoused and defeat their few remaining political allies.