Affordable Housing

New York City’s Rent Freeze: Who Benefits? What’s Next?

July 8, 2026 Olivia Wood, Left Voice. Educate! Affordable Housing, New York City (NYC), Rent Freeze, Tenant Rights

You may have seen the headlines: the rent in New York City is frozen! Mayor Zohran Mamdani has achieved one of his major campaign proposals. But the text underneath the headlines reveals the limits and complications, well known to those familiar with New York’s rent stabilization system, yet opaque to others. The rent freeze will bring welcome relief to many tenants, and was only made possible through the organizing of thousands of New Yorkers who are fighting for a more affordable city for themselves and their neighbors. Yet the rent freeze alone will not fix New York’s crisis of affordable housing.

Why Some Unions Are Joining The Call To ‘Freeze The Rent’

June 28, 2026 Rebecca Burns, In These Times. Organize! Affordable Housing, New York (NY), Rent Freeze, Unions

"I urge you guys to freeze the rent, because we want our students to succeed.” That was the appeal Alyssa Wright made to the nine members of New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) earlier this month, a little more than halfway through a packed, four-hour hearing in the Bronx on whether to freeze rents in the city’s some 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. Wright serves as a campus supervisor for a pilot program connecting City University of New York (CUNY) students with housing, healthcare and food resources. It’s a challenging role: Just that week, Wright said in her testimony, she had counseled five students facing eviction.

Real Estate Merger Poised To Create Local Apartment Monopolies

June 23, 2026 Rebecca Burns, In These Times. Educate! Affordable Housing, Los Angeles, Monopolies, Tenant Rights

A$69 billion merger between two real estate behemoths is set to create the largest publicly traded apartment landlord in U.S. history, dramatically expanding the market power of two firms that have been sued repeatedly over alleged tenant abuses and illegal price-fixing. Together, real estate investment trusts (REITs) AvalonBay Communities and Equity Residential own more than 180,000 apartments nationwide, with another 20,000 under development. Were these two companies banks or broadcast networks or grocery stores, their merger would face mandatory review by federal regulators.

The US Military Is Intensifying Hawai’i’s Housing Affordability Crisis

May 29, 2026 Omar Ocampo, Inequality.org. Educate! Affordable Housing, Hawaii, Housing, US military

On the surface, the affordability crisis that afflicts both tenants and prospective homebuyers in Hawai’i appears to resemble those of other housing-stressed states across the country. With a shortage of housing units accessible to working-class households, a high concentration of short-term rentals, and a strong demand from wealthy and out-of-state buyers, an increasing number of Hawai’i’s residents are priced out of paradise and forced to migrate outwards in search of cheaper housing. But there is one element that makes Hawai’i’s housing market unique: the role of the U.S. military.

This Kansas City Neighborhood Is Transforming Neglected Housing

January 26, 2026 Hope Davis, Next City. Create! Affordable Housing, Community Control, Gentrification, Kansas City

In Northeast Kansas City, Missouri, one working-class neighborhood is using a multi-pronged approach to take control of its housing supply. Since 2018, the Lykins Neighborhood Association has been taking on ambitious projects including using a state law to take control of abandoned homes, establishing a mixed-income neighborhood trust and partnering with Habitat for Humanity to construct 15-20 new houses. Their goal: enhancing the neighborhood’s livability, not maximizing property values. As one of the most diverse sections of Kansas City, the Lykins neighborhood wants to revitalize its housing stock while preserving its blue-collar heritage.

Canada Has Become A Hostage Of Its Own Housing Bubble

December 14, 2025 James Hardwick, Canadian Dimension. Create! Affordable Housing, Canada, Housing, Inflation, Social Housing

At the beginning of the millennium home prices began rising faster than incomes. As time went on, housing became less and less affordable. When the global financial crisis hit in 2008 real estate values continued their rapid growth even as markets crashed in the United States and Britain. For a quarter-century rising housing costs outpaced wages, pricing out generations of Canadians and pushing thousands into homelessness. What would it take for home-price-to-income ratios to return to the level of the early aughts? What would need to happen for housing to become affordable again?

Fueling The Future Of Community Ownership

December 2, 2025 Miriam Axel-Lute, ShelterForce. Create! Affordable Housing, Community Land Trust, Community Wealth, Housing

An enduring vision for many people across the country is to collectively own local land and buildings, thus controlling how those properties are used and who benefits from them. It’s a way for people to not only care for their neighborhoods and neighbors, but to also push back against outside influences that are exploiting and extracting value from communities. While there are some forms of community ownership—like community land trusts, limited-equity co-ops, and resident-owned manufactured housing parks—that are fairly well-known, there are new ones being developed as well to serve communities in new ways.

Own The Hell Out Of It

November 29, 2025 David Lidz, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Affordable Housing, Baltimore, Housing, Poverty

There’s a point in every crisis; housing, labour, democracy, take your pick – where you realise the system isn’t just broken, it’s working exactly as designed. And usually, that realisation can happen as early as taking your first step on soil that’s already borrowed, bought and broken before you ever arrived. For me, that understanding started in Salford. Not the glossy council-brouchure Salford of waterfront apartments and artisan dog biscuits, but the Salford Walter Greenwood sketched in Love on the Dole. A place where “poverty was an unwelcome lodger in every home”, where whole streets lived under the shadow of the slum clearances and where, by the 1960s, some of the worst housing in Western Europe was still being swept under municipal carpet.

Zoning For The Future In Northwest Arkansas

November 15, 2025 Jordan P. Hickey, In these Times. Resist! Affordable Housing, Arkansas, Hyper-Gentrification, Urban Design, zoning

If this were the first city council meeting someone attended in Fayetteville, the construction proposal for The Hub would likely seem like a good prospect: seven stories of sleek new housing, in a city with desperate need for more of it, with 37 of its 312 apartments reserved as income-controlled “workforce units.” As the council members and a standing-room-only crowd listened on August 5, the representative from Chicago- based housing developer Core Spaces presented a plan that seemed almost ideal for the Northwest Arkansas college town.

Trump Plan Accelerates Assault On Section 8 Housing

September 30, 2025 Alexis Sterling, Nation of Change. Educate! Affordable Housing, Evictions, Housing, Housing Vouchers, HUD, Trump Administration

The Trump administration is escalating its efforts to dismantle federal rental assistance, targeting the Housing Choice Voucher Program—commonly known as Section 8—through budget cuts, new eligibility requirements, and sweeping administrative directives. The changes could displace millions of households, including families with children, seniors, disabled tenants, and low-wage workers. The Housing Choice Voucher Program is the largest federal rental assistance initiative, serving approximately 2.3 million low-income households across the country. According to data cited by USAFacts, the program provides stable housing to 2.7 percent of U.S. residents. Nearly a quarter of those living in subsidized housing have a disability, 33 percent of households include minor children, 74 percent are headed by women, 41 percent are headed by people over the age of 62, and 66 percent are headed by people of color.

Wall Street Is Killing The Housing Market

September 6, 2025 Garrett Brand, Inequality.org. Educate! Affordable Housing, Capitalism, Housing, Wall Street

There are few things more important than our homes. Alongside providing our shelter, homes are where we make memories with friends and family — where bonds are formed and strengthened. Unfortunately, the right to a home in America is under threat. Rents have skyrocketed, homelessness is rising, and home ownership is increasingly unattainable for most Americans. There are multiple causes, but one culprit stands out: classic Wall Street greed. Massive private equity corporations and hedge funds are buying up homes by the thousands — houses, apartment buildings, and mobile home parks alike — and then jacking up rents. This trend accelerated after the 2008 financial crisis, when investment firms snatched up homes in foreclosure and began renting them to the growing number of people locked out of ownership.

Mobile Home Mobilization

September 5, 2025 Eleni Schirmer, In These Times. Create! Affordable Housing, Capitalism, Cooperatives, Mobile Homes, Vermont

For Gayle Pezzo, it started with the snowplows. In the fall of 2018, following a winter distinguished by the biggest snowfall in years, the town of Colchester, Vt., stopped plowing the nearly five miles of roads that snake through Westbury Mobile Home Park, where Pezzo, 72, lives. She and her neighbors were furious that the local government could simply withdraw its services and leave the park in the lurch. According to the Colchester Selectboard, the town’s five-member governing body, clearing Westbury’s roads was not the responsibility of public plows. They had decided that Westbury was a private residence — in effect, one with a long, rambling driveway that happened to shelter 250 working-class Vermont families.

Land Trust’s Pioneering Model Protects Artists From Displacement

August 28, 2025 Eliana Perozo, Next City. Create! Affordable Housing, Artists, California, Gentrification, Land trusts

To Meg Shiffler, every artist is an entrepreneur. The inaugural director of the San Francisco-based nonprofit Artist Space Trust knows that when artists are priced out of their communities, it’s not just a loss of cultural vibrancy; it’s the shuttering of small businesses and the weakening of local economies. Artists everywhere are on the brink. A longitudinal study of 20 million workers from 2006 to 2021 found that artists earn up to 30% less than those in other industries. Although over 5 million people work in the arts and cultural industries, they face higher unemployment rates, lower wages, and fewer benefits. And because artists are three-and-a-half times more likely to be self-employed than other workers, many lack the credit and stable income that banks and landlords require. “The displacement of artists is not just the displacement of workers,” Shiffler explains.

In Albuquerque, Developers Turn Old Motels Into Affordable Housing

August 15, 2025 Jack Herrera, Next City. Create! Affordable Housing, Albuquerque, Housing, New Mexico, Working Class

As a housing crisis pummels the West, from Sun Valley, Idaho, to Tucson, Arizona, there’s a dull irony in the number of abandoned houses and old hotels. Some of them cluster around former mining boomtowns; Bannack, Montana, for instance, was briefly the state’s capital before the veins of gold ran dry and the 10,000 residents moved on. Today, some 60 buildings still stand, including the handsome red-brick Hotel Meade. Two Guns, Arizona, once served Dust Bowl migrants and other travelers along Route 66, but when the interstate highway passed it by, the town collapsed. Today, its ruins include homes and motels as well as campgrounds for travelers and the remnants of a zoo that once housed mountain lions and Gila monsters.

Boston Ujima Project Is Investing In A Community Land Trust

August 14, 2025 Oscar Perry Abello, Next City. Create! Affordable Housing, Boston, Community Finance, Land trusts

If there’s one thing Ruby Reyes loves more than learning, it’s protecting and supporting opportunities for her community to learn together. She gets to do both as part of the Boston Ujima Project’s member fund management committee, which reviews potential investments for the community-controlled social investment fund focused on uplifting Boston’s BIPOC communities. Each investment requires a majority vote for approval from the Boston Ujima Project’s voting membership, which currently consists of 240 people who identify as working-class or person of color or both, either living in Boston or have been displaced from Boston. The Boston Ujima Project has made 10 investments so far.

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