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Supreme Court Considers Landlord Appeal That Could Overturn Tenant Protections

1 week ago | shelterforce.org | Spencer Bailey

Top TakeawaysThe Supreme Court is considering a request from landlords that could declare COVID-19 eviction moratoriums unconstitutional, potentially opening the door to challenges against other tenant protections. The current legal challenge is an expansion on a recent Supreme Court decision overturning California’s union-organizing protections for farmworkers.
The Government Didn’t Pay My Rent. Now What?

2 weeks ago | shelterforce.org | Shelby R. King

The Housing Choice Voucher program, better known as Section 8, helps low-income renters afford private-market housing by restricting their portion of the monthly rent to 30 percent of their income. The federal government pays the remainder. The program is run by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which transfers its portion of the rent to local public housing authorities (PHAs) each month. The PHAs then pay landlords directly.
Is DOGE Coming After NeighborWorks?

3 weeks ago | shelterforce.org | Miriam Axel-Lute |Miriam Axel Lute

NeighborWorks America (NWA) is a congressionally chartered independent nonprofit organization that supports a network of nearly 250 local organizations in creating and sustaining affordable housing, including through homeownership. At the end of last week, alarm rippled through the community development world as news spread that NeighborWorks had been assigned a team from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
ICE Is Coming to Your Building-Are You Ready?

1 month ago | shelterforce.org | Shelby R. King

Immigrant communities in the United States are on edge. And rightly so—President Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric and draconian deportation policies are wreaking havoc on folks’ sense of security. As a result of the fear mongering, families are going into hiding, says Adriana Quintero, a leader at The Family Center/La Familia, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the immigrant community in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Clybourne Park on Stage, Housing Inequity in Real Life-A Post-Show Reflection

1 month ago | shelterforce.org | Shelby R. King

Review Neighborhood Change Watching a play about race, gentrification, and community set in a fictional South Chicago neighborhood in 1959 (Act 1) and 2009 (Act 2) while living through 2025 feels a little quaint.
There’s a Community Oversight Fight Brewing in the Bronx

1 month ago | shelterforce.org | Max Parrott

Since the 1990s the vacant Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx has become a landmark, not just of hulking bygone military architecture, but it’s also a symbol that represents city and developer attempts to impose proposals—from homeless shelters to shopping malls or ice rinks—on community residents. That was supposed to change two years ago when the city launched a new bid to repurpose the armory and enlisted community groups in its early planning.
In New Jersey, Pivotal Affordable Housing Decision Turns 50

1 month ago | shelterforce.org | Miriam Axel-Lute |Miriam Axel Lute

Fifty years ago this week, news was being made in New Jersey that would get coverage in Shelterforce’s very first issue—a decision in the case of Southern Burlington County NAACP v. Township of Mount Laurel. That New Jersey Supreme Court ruling, together with a subsequent one, formed what is known as the Mount Laurel Doctrine, which requires that all New Jersey municipalities provide their “fair share” of the affordable housing needed in the state.
Six Reasons Why Housing Is a Human Right

1 month ago | shelterforce.org | Fran Quigley

Or, sometimes, the emails. Writing about housing in media outlets can lead to pushback, especially when referring to housing as a human right. “Housing is a human right? How?” a reader named “Stabilizer” asked in response to one of my columns. “Housing is a human NEED. Also food, sex, and vacations on a nice tropical beach.”A local lawyer emailed me directly, in part to criticize our law school clinic’s work representing low-income tenants facing eviction.
Section 8 Under Trump: How Policy Uncertainty Is Affecting Affordable Housing

1 month ago | shelterforce.org | Shelby R. King

Skip to main content Reported Article Public Housing Idaho is one of the nation’s most seismically active states, so people living in Ada County, home to Boise, aren’t typically surprised when an earthquake hits. But Jan.
What's Going On With the HUD Budget?

2 months ago | shelterforce.org | Shelby R. King

Top TakeawaysPotential Government Shutdown Looms: The U.S. federal government faces a partial shutdown starting March 15 if the Senate fails to pass a continuing resolution (CR) to extend funding through September. Senate Democrats oppose the House’s CR due to concerns over housing cost increases and Republican amendments, making its passage not a sure thing.