Our executive director writes about opportunities that 20th-century America’s more affordable cities offered her mother, an amateur artist, and others of her generation — opportunities that are no longer accessible to most of us.

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation. Thanks to poor administrative decisions at a local housing complex for artists, the city’s poet laureate fell into nerve-wracking precarity.

Co-published with Grist. “There's so many ways that renters are screwed.”

Co-published with Grist. Climate change is forcing cities to curb parking to bring down emissions and create more affordable housing.

Co-published with VPM News. Residents are pushing back against the investment firm that bought land beneath their trailers.

Co-published with Grist. The upstate New York city would be one of the first in the country to tackle the energy woes of affordable housing.

Co-published with Fast Company. From violence to pandemic recovery, community leaders in Chelsea, Massachusetts, have created new, locally powered social innovations to rebuild their city.

Co-published with The Nation. In New York, the real estate industry and the politicians in its pocket both reign supreme. These tenants have a plan to change that forever.

Co-published with Mother Jones. “What we want is to be a model for the nation,” says a resident of Golden Gate Village.

Co-published with Next City. After a long, complicated battle with their landlord, tenants of five Minneapolis buildings achieved what many thought to be impossible: They now own their homes.

Co-published with TalkPoverty.org. Hurricanes Irma and Harvey reveal the brutal treatment of previously homeless victims.

Co-published with Bill Moyers. Home to some 20 million people — 6 percent of Americans — they are the nation’s largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing, offering a shot at the American dream to people who can’t