Housing & Communities Archive

The United States is in the throes of another devastating housing crisis. Financial institutions are accumulating risk at an alarming pace, and regulators and policymakers are …

In California, every day we see how the affordable housing crisis and climate crisis are linked. Rent hikes that outpace our wages, rising utility bills that …

As the U.S. housing crisis deepens and the impact of climate change makes it harder for tenants to find safe housing options, the demand for bold …

MacKenzie Marcelin is a Florida resident and the climate justice director with Florida Rising, a grassroots organization that works with Black and brown low-income communities across …

Home insurance prices are increasing in advanced economies around the world, at a rate that is making insurance unaffordable in countries such as Australia, Canada, the …

Brendan Mitchell and Seana O’Shaugnessy both help run non-profits focused on affordable housing preservation, development and management, though they do so from opposite sides of the …

For many of us, insurance is a routine part of economic life. We insure our homes, our health, our phones, our cars, our lives. We pay …

Home insurance markets in the United States are experiencing a mounting crisis. Worsening climate disasters like more intense hurricanes, wildfires, and hailstorms are making multi-billion-dollar payouts …

The massive backlog of deferred maintenance for public housing in the United States demands a comprehensive, holistic solution that brings every unit in the country up …

Tenants in the United States are bearing the brunt of the housing and climate crises: egregious rent hikes, deferred maintenance in their units, growing utility debts, …