The Plan to Bring Social Housing (Back) to New York
Next City
JULY 25, 2024
Housing, tenant rights and labor justice advocates helped shape the proposed state housing authority. It will need their support to pass.
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Social Housing Isn’t Just a Vienna Thing. It’s Core to New York’s Past – and Could Be Its Future.
Next City
AUGUST 1, 2024
The policy wonk who helped pen the state housing authority bill says it's time to revive New York’s history of social housing.
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An Indigenous Community Land Trust Is Creating Housing Through #LandBack
Next City
MARCH 23, 2023
Now, through a unique legal model, it’s creating housing for former foster youth on its ancestral land. In Eureka, California, the Wiyot tribe has seen historic urban Indigenous land return victories.
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Modular Construction Is on the Rise. Can It Build High-Quality Affordable Housing?
Next City
AUGUST 15, 2024
The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority built dozens of affordable units through modular construction. Is this a sign of things to come?
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The Affordable Housing Crisis Grows While Efforts to Increase Supply Fall Short
GAO (US Government Accountability Office)
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Shortages of affordable housing are a long-standing challenge in the United States. High interest rates and low inventory are contributing to this issue, as is the growing number of millennials, who are looking for larger homes to raise families.
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Filling The Accessible Housing Gap For Disabled People Of Color
Next City
JULY 27, 2023
New developments are prioritizing affordable, accessible housing for a population that’s uniquely vulnerable to housing discrimination.
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Housing Shortage? Here’s How to Get Federal Dollars to Transform Office Spaces into Homes in Your Community
OpenGov
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
The combination has led the federal government to release […] The post Housing Shortage? Almost 1 in 4 office spaces across the country sit empty. At the same time, communities are growing faster than ever. Here’s How to Get Federal Dollars to Transform Office Spaces into Homes in Your Community appeared first on OpenGov.
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NASCIO: AI,gov and Cybersecurity Are Federal Advocacy Priorities in 2025
State Tech Magazine
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
In its annual Federal Advocacy Priorities report, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers highlighted the importance of collaboration on artificial intelligence policy and implementation among states, federal agencies, Congress and the White House.
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With Co-Design, Residents “Do Housing On Their Own Terms”
Next City
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
It’s crunch time for many of Bristol’s post-war housing estates. Could the city’s radical co-design projects go beyond lip service to deliver regeneration at scale?
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Lessons From The U.K.’s Transformative Social Housing System
Next City
AUGUST 3, 2023
’s social housing system changed millions of low- and middle-income people’s lives – and how privatization has crippled its power. Social historian John Boughton explains how the U.K.’s
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Could a New Housing Cooperative Help Bring Affordable Homes to Hawai‘i?
Next City
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
A group of Kaua‘i renters is joining a growing number of Americans looking at co-ops to help combat skyrocketing housing prices.
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Affordable Housing Is Never the Only Problem – Or the Only Solution
Next City
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Poverty doesn’t cause social breakdown, nor is social breakdown confined to areas with high levels of poverty, Seth Kaplan writes in “Fragile Neighborhoods.
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Local Governments Break Down Data Silos to House Vulnerable Citizens
State Tech Magazine
APRIL 11, 2024
As 2024 dawned the Sonoma County, Calif.-based based nonprofit Social Advocates for Youth made an urgent announcement: It would need to close Northern California’s only homeless shelter for youth if it couldn’t raise funds.
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‘El Paso Helps’ Places Struggling Residents in Housing or Shelters
State Tech Magazine
OCTOBER 16, 2024
The city of El Paso, Texas, has produced online resources to assist individuals and families facing a housing crisis. Under the banner of El Paso Helps, the city strives to place people struggling with homelessness in shelters.
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What is Market-Rate Housing?
NLC (National League of Cities)
JANUARY 9, 2024
Defining Market-Rate Housing Market-rate housing refers to non-subsidized properties that are rented or owned by those who pay market-rate rents or who paid market value to purchase the property. Unlike subsidized affordable housing, market-rate housing does not confer special government benefits.
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Modular Construction Is on the Rise. Can It Build High-Quality Affordable Housing?
Next City
AUGUST 15, 2024
The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority built dozens of affordable units through modular construction. Is this a sign of things to come?
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Housing for Older Adults
NLC (National League of Cities)
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
By 2030, one-fifth of the American population will be aged 65 or over, which will only make worse a critical deficit in suitable housing that caters to their specific requirements. As individuals grow older, their housing needs change, including increased accommodations for those with disabilities.
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How New Jersey’s new affordable housing law aims to ease the housing crisis
GCN
MARCH 22, 2024
The new law lets municipalities know exactly how much affordable housing they have to build. It’s an approach that states are increasingly trying in an effort to pressure local governments to increase affordable options.
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White House Seeks Cybersecurity Help for Rural Hospitals
FedTech Magazine
JULY 22, 2024
The White House has tapped Microsoft and Google to provide free cybersecurity services to approximately 2,000 “critical access” hospitals in an effort to protect healthcare in rural parts of the U.S.
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A match made in housing
GCN
JUNE 20, 2024
As America’s population rapidly ages and housing costs soar, some states are playing matchmaker and matching young people in need of affordable housing with older adults with room to spare.
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Exploring the Link Between Housing Stability and Mental Health
NLC (National League of Cities)
MAY 28, 2024
By Mia Chapman Millions of people in the United States living with mental health challenges face barriers to finding and maintaining stable housing. Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, and mental health illnesses are some of the most common health conditions across the country.
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Investing in housing: Unlocking economic mobility for Black families and all Americans
McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Exploring how innovative solutions could help alleviate the housing crisis and improve economic mobility for all.
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Why is it so hard to build housing near transit stops?
GCN
MARCH 12, 2024
Two recent studies look at the obstacles to building more apartments and other dense housing options near transit to address environmental, urban development and housing goals.
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Housing: What is Universal Design and Why Does it Matter?
NLC (National League of Cities)
JULY 25, 2024
Co-authored by Mia Chapman, Intern, Housing & Community Development, NLC and Lauren Lowery, Director of Housing & Community Development, NLC The architectural principle of universal design prioritizes usability by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialization.
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Gentrification’s Roots in the Post-Industrial City
Next City
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
It’s also the story of Silicon Valley, whose crown jewel, San Jose, urbanized to house workers for now long-outsourced microchip factories. Op-ed: De-industrialization isn’t just a Detroit story.
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Do land-use reforms spur housing development? You betcha.
GCN
JANUARY 8, 2024
After years of adjusting land-use regulations, Minneapolis boosted its housing stock by 12%, while rents grew at just 1%. Meanwhile, the rest of Minnesota increased its stock by 4% as rents rose 14%.
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How SSEs Boost Cloud-Native Application Security
State Tech Magazine
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
But 9 times out of 10, what we’re really talking about is Software as a Service, especially among state and local government agencies that don’t necessarily have the in-house staff to develop, manage and secure their own apps in the cloud. The phrase “cloud-native apps” gets thrown around a lot.
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Maximizing Underused Hospital-Owned Land for Affordable Housing
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
MARCH 7, 2024
As New York City faces its worst housing crisis in over 50 years, policymakers are looking to connect affordable housing developers with a range of institutional stakeholders from hospitals to faith-based organizations to find ways to increase the supply of homes. With an extremely low 1.4
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Tackling New York City’s Housing Crisis is a ‘Shared Responsibility’
The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Top New York City officials urged state leaders in Albany to provide the necessary funding and legislative support to build additional housing as the city contends with its worst housing crunch in over 50 years. "We percent—the lowest mark since 1986, according to the latest NYC Housing and Vacancy Survey released last Thursday.
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Philly’s New Violence Intervention Program Focuses On Stability And Support
Next City
MAY 4, 2023
Based on a successful model in Chicago, Philadelphia’s new initiative will provide housing and other need-based services to individuals at risk for gun violence to reduce shootings and incarceration rates.
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What is Permanent Supportive Housing?
NLC (National League of Cities)
JANUARY 31, 2024
Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) refers to providing affordable housing with voluntary supportive services to address homelessness. PSH is considered a Housing First principle, meaning there are no preconditions (e.g., for program participants to access housing. sobriety, enrollment in mental health services, etc.)
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What is Missing Middle Housing?
NLC (National League of Cities)
JANUARY 23, 2024
Missing middle housing refers to housing that provides diverse housing options along the spectrum of affordability, which includes duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes and bungalows. Middle housing is not eligible for tax credits or most other federal, state or local government subsidies.
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Teachers can’t afford housing, so school districts are building homes
GCN
JANUARY 4, 2024
When potential teachers are considering a position, they often want to know what’s available for affordable housing. “If If I don’t have an answer for that, I lose that applicant,” one school district superintendent says.
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Housing and care costs leave aging Americans with limited options
GCN
DECEMBER 1, 2023
population, communities need to prepare for the growing number of older adults who need both affordable housing and care, experts say. With adults over 65 already 17% of the U.S.
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National Experts Join the Housing Supply Accelerator to Guide Meaningful Action
NLC (National League of Cities)
MARCH 22, 2023
The United States housing supply is short nearly four million of what communities and residents need, even in areas that have previously experienced relatively stable markets. The impact of this is felt through low rates of housing vacancies or availability, rising rents, and high home purchase prices, and more.
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Examining the Role of Land Use and Regulations in Housing Development
NLC (National League of Cities)
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Housing Supply Accelerator Convening The Housing Supply Accelerator, a partnership between the National League of Cities (NLC) and the American Planning Association (APA), is dedicated to locally driven housing supply solutions.
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More Older Adults are Homeless—What Can Be Done to Help this Vulnerable Population with Unique Needs
GAO (US Government Accountability Office)
JANUARY 16, 2025
reached a record high in 2024, according to a new annual point-in-time count released in December by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Homelessness in the U.S. More than 770,000 people experienced homelessness on a single night.
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Federal Prisons Haven’t Addressed Longstanding Concerns About Overuse of Solitary Confinement
GAO (US Government Accountability Office)
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
In prisons, restrictive housing—including solitary confinement—is meant to temporarily separate those who engage in violent or disruptive behavior from the general population. While this is meant to be a safety measure, there are concerns that.
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House passes bipartisan tax bill
GCN
JANUARY 31, 2024
The measure restores some of the popular expanded child tax credit, as well as a credit that helps states build affordable housing.
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Thriving Communities TA: Helping Local Governments Coordinating Housing and Infrastructure
NLC (National League of Cities)
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Department of Housing and Urban Development; and Sarah Schaefer, social science analyst, Office of Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Article by Pam Blumenthal, social science analyst, Office of Policy Development and Research at the U.S.
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States turn to Medicaid to tackle housing insecurity
GCN
MARCH 19, 2024
Section 1115 Medicaid waivers can help states reduce health inequities by covering housing costs and providing meal support for vulnerable populations.
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Chattanooga’s PILOT Reimagined: Honing a Powerful Housing Tool
NLC (National League of Cities)
JANUARY 13, 2025
Authored by Hanneke van Deursen, Bloomberg City Hall Fellow, City of Chattanooga and Nicole Heyman, Chief Housing Officer, City of Chattanooga With limited federal resources and state preemption on regulations, what can a mid-size city do to expand its impact on affordable housing? This is the question faced by Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Connecting Young Adults to Housing, Jobs and Education
NLC (National League of Cities)
JANUARY 9, 2025
Among these needs, housing ranks high. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a 2024 Point […] Source
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A Pioneering Program Paying NYC’s Low-Income Youth to Learn to Swim
Next City
AUGUST 20, 2024
The NYCHA Swim Corps program brings swimming lessons to youth in New York's public housing developments. It’s harder than it sounds.
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