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 ...

Joan Pransky fought for and defended tenants and rent control policies in NJ. Michael McKee defended and strengthened rent ...

The OZ program unleashed billions in private capital. Who it actually helps depends on who’s steering the money and how well ...

A poem about “caretakers and waymakers,” which emerged from interviews with 13 frontline community workers in Memphis.

Multiple states and localities brought affordable housing measures to the polls in 2025, to varying results. On Nov. 4, Americans headed to the polls, stressed about their rent and historic levels of ...

Tianli Cheng is an 11th-grade honors student at Ranney School in New Jersey. Since 2023, he has volunteered with the Asian Community Care Organization in New York City, helping Chinese-speaking ...