The Return for These Investors Isn’t Money, It’s More Affordable Housing

Local governments are trying to create housing that is permanently affordable by investing directly in construction. They are ...
The Nation

When It Comes to Building New Housing, “Abundance” Is More Like Avoidance

Neither Klein and Thompson nor many of their critics on the left offer a robust strategy for actually building affordable homes. Here’s one that has been proven to work. Ezra Klein and Derek ...
PBS

A successful USDA program that has supported more than 533,000 affordable rental homes in rural America is being phased out

The high cost of renting and buying homes in U.S. cities is no secret. But this affordability problem isn't limited to urban regions – it affects rural areas as well. Rural areas, home to about 25% of ...
The New York Times

Why Building Alone Won’t Solve the Housing Crisis

An imbalance in the kind of housing getting built and rising insurance costs are impeding housing progress, according to two new reports. By Ronda Kaysen The United States has not built enough housing ...