Vienna is the global capital of social housing. Over 40 percent of the city’s housing units are social housing, providing homes for the majority of the …

We propose a package of measures, labeled the Safe Housing Foundation, to eliminate extreme housing and energy insecurity for millions of households. These center on expanding and improving housing choice vouchers while laying the groundwork for improved governance structures that could deliver transformative change over time.

Federal policymakers should work to advance national rent control and preempt states and localities from infringing on the rights of other jurisdictions to pass their own form of rent control.

The Social Housing Development Authority is a proposal for a proactive public actor in the housing market to expand the supply of permanently affordable green social housing. This would be a federal entity that would serve the functions of a public developer, a public bank, and a land bank to create and transfer housing to the social housing sector.

A federal National Housing Resilience Agency can provide adequate, affordable, and available national disaster insurance for homes, and carry out proactive adaptation and risk mitigation so homes are safer to begin with.

Public housing should be a central pillar of a progressive supply-side housing agenda to preserve deeply affordable housing, expand public development, and help spur market transformation for a green transition.

Increasing insurance costs are making an already painful housing affordability crisis even worse. Interventions are needed to put the public sector in the driver’s seat.

In New York City, policy discussions about housing affordability tend to focus on rent freezes, land-use reform, and public investment in new affordable housing. Yet housing …

Strategic investments in an innovative building approach called industrialized construction could accelerate progress toward New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s goal of constructing 200,000 new affordable, union-built, …