Housing Advocacy

The pandemic reminded us how education and housing affect each other. Now some advocates are fighting to make sure no one forgets it.

The Grants Pass decision will shape the way cities address homelessness in ways that may challenge housing advocates, but it also represents the best opportunity we’ve had in decades to change the narrative on homelessness and build stronger public will for housing.

As municipalities face post-pandemic fiscal shortages, there’s a longer-term danger lurking behind budget fights.

Schlonn Hawkins, CEO and publisher of Shelterforce, moderated “Her Story, Her Power,” a discussion with four women of color who shared their unique journeys of leading change and fighting injustice.

Vy Le’s perseverance as an immigrant, unbeknownst to her, was preparation for a later fight to remove barriers for others facing similar challenges.

Housing advocates working at the local, state, and national levels discuss new research and policy recommendations for advancing housing justice.

Nonprofits struggle to understand how to respond to the ban on “divisive concepts” in their training and protect their federal funding.

California housing organizers reflect on what changes, and what stays the same, during a pandemic.

Even large health systems willing to finance housing can’t solve housing affordability by themselves; it will take policy change. Taking the plunge to lobbying for that change is still a big step, but when they do they get attention.

When we rethink the problem as one of political voice rather than community consensus, it opens up new, innovative techniques to determine public priorities.

In early June, residents and organizers successfully pressured the Ithaca Common Council to pass a resolution that requests that the state grant them the authority to cancel rent in response to COVID-19. Contrary to many headlines, it didn’t actually cancel rent—yet.

The primary image evoked by the Habitat for Humanity name remains that of President Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter working with volunteers to build or improve single-family homes. Habitat’s do-gooder image […]