With the nation in the midst of a seemingly intractable affordable housing crisis, new possibilities are becoming visible. Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed a number of policies to make homes ...

Ballots for Seattle's special election went out last month and are due back by Feb. 14. There is only one issue on the ballot: Initiative 135 — social housing. For an adequate conversation about ...

We are on the precipice of a historic election in New York City. As we head to the ballot box to deliver a likely democratic ...

The opening scenes of the award-winning Brazilian film "City of God" (2002) portray a newly constructed housing complex situated on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Subsequently, this complex evolves ...

Chicago could set a national example with its social housing program, included in the bond issue approved on April 19. Credit: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Whether it was testimony from a who ...

Boston Road provides 154 units of housing for formerly homeless people, many of them seniors and living with HIV/AIDS, as well as low-income working adults from the ...

A new report describes the path to social housing in New York through 20 policy proposals, from overhauling the property tax code and abolishing the city’s tax lien sale to cracking down on landlord ...

Social Security senior housing offers subsidies to seniors, easing budget strains. Qualification for these subsidies depends on age, income, and assets. Various types available, from independent ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. Over the past half-decade, California lawmakers have signed off on almost a hundred laws seeking to ...

Nigel de Noronha does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

York holds one of the country’s richest concentrations of historic almshouses and shows how centuries of philanthropy and ...