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Homelessness Dropped in 2025—But the Reality on the Ground Is More Complicated

September 18, 2026 | Ivis García

The most recent annual count of unhoused people across the country dropped for the first time since 2016. But the reasons it dropped, and the groups affected, complicate the victory.

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From the Field

What’s at Risk Under the CRA Proposal and How Communities Can Respond

September 17, 2026 | Jesse Van Tol

A proposal from two federal banking regulators would reduce both the scale and scope of federal Community Reinvestment Act oversight. Here’s what could change and how communities can respond. Comments are due October 13.

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HUD

HUD Floated Then Pulled a Reorganization Plan. Will It Return?

September 16, 2026 | Shelby R. King

The department proposed centralizing major public housing, voucher, fair housing, legal, and grant functions after losing nearly 35 percent of its staff. Then it withdrew the notice without explanation. What does that mean for the plan?

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The Clock Is Ticking on Affordable Housing

Shelby R. King

More than 440,000 federally assisted homes will lose subsidies or rent restrictions before 2030. Those expirations don’t automatically mean the homes will be lost, but many deadlines are arriving as aging buildings and rising costs make keeping them affordable increasingly difficult.

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Unsupported Housing: When Stability Isn’t Enough

Shelby R. King

As the country’s mental health, substance use, homelessness, and affordability crises collide, traditional affordable housing providers say they’re being pushed to fill the gaps left by underfunded supportive systems—without the money, staff, or resources to do so.

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Breaking Point: Why the Affordable Housing Business Model Is Unraveling

Shelby R. King

Affordable housing has never been easy to finance. Now, with rising insurance, debt, and operating costs outpacing rents and subsidies, developers say it’s getting harder to make the math work.

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Building the Capital Ecosystem Native Businesses Need

September 15, 2026 | Alexander Sterling

A Native-led CDFI is showing what happens when small-business lending receives relationship-based, culturally rooted support.

Homelessness

How Aging and Homeless Services Can Meet in the Middle

September 11, 2026 | Frances Nguyen

As more older adults face housing instability, aging and homelessness service providers are building partnerships to fill the gaps between two systems that have long operated separately.

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From the Field

To Speed Up Rural Housing Delivery, Stop Making Partnerships About You

September 10, 2026 | Jim King

An aging rural U.S. must do more to keep people healthy in their homes. Rural housing advocates need to ask hard questions and design better systems to make healthier housing possible.

State & Local Policy

Can Atlanta Make Tax-Increment Financing Work in an Equitable Way?

September 9, 2026 | Sean Keenan

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens’s $5 billion-plus Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative aims to reduce inequity between the city’s neighborhoods, and even has a proactive anti-displacement plan. But its financing method might not get the needed buy-in.

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Housing Bill Could Boost Community Land Trusts, But Implementation Is Critical

September 4, 2026 | Doug Ryan and Tiana Patterson

The federal housing bill passed in July marks a major step forward in federal recognition of and support for community land trusts and other forms of shared-equity housing. But implementing these provisions is critical if the promised benefits are to be realized.

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Fair Housing

Will New York’s Source of Income Protections Survive Legal Challenges?

September 3, 2026 | Roshan Abraham

An Ithaca landlord argued that source-of-income discrimination laws force them to consent to government searches, and courts agreed twice. The reasoning has since surfaced in a dozen cases across the country.

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What Does a Good Housing ‘Impact Investment’ Look Like? A Shelterforce Webinar

August 14, 2026 | Steve Dubb

How can impact investing be an effective affordable housing partner? CDFI leaders and affordable housing providers point to the importance of redefining risk so that returns to communities are at least as important as returns to investors.
State & Local Policy
Laboratories of Democracy: Emerging State and Local Policy Visions, a Shelterforce Webinar

July 9, 2026 | Miriam Axel-Lute

There is a lot that can be done to advance housing and community investment at the local and state level. This is the perfect moment to do it.
Housing
What Does a Solidarity Approach to Housing Look Like? A Shelterforce Webinar

June 10, 2026 | Steve Dubb

In this webinar, we examine what a solidarity economy approach is, what its principles are, how these principles are being applied presently, and how they might be applied more broadly to support housing justice and transformative economic change.
Affordability
Making Homeownership Affordable: Bringing Fannie and Freddie Back to Mission, a Shelterforce Webinar

April 30, 2026 | Steve Dubb

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guarantee most U.S. home loans, which is supposed to make homeownership widely accessible. But is this happening? In this webinar, three field leaders argue that these government-sponsored enterprises need to step up with new products and services to expand access to homeownership.

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Housing in an Aging Society

Longer lifespans, evolving household structures, and growing care needs are changing what people need from their homes and communities. In this Under the Lens series, Shelterforce examines what it means to live in an aging society, how families are adapting to the realities of growing older, and the housing policies and solutions that can help support aging safely, affordably, and connected to one another.

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The Population Is Getting Older. Our Housing System Isn’t Ready.

July 20, 2026 | Lillian M. Ortiz

Stability in older age depends on a host of overlapping conditions being met. Our new Under the Lens series explores those conditions, how to achieve them, and what it means when our housing system isn’t built for a population that’s growing older.

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Housing for an Older America: From ‘Aging in Place’ to ‘Aging in Community’

July 21, 2026 | Frances Nguyen

The debate over aging in place is shifting from how to keep older adults in their homes to what kinds of communities allow people to age safely, affordably, and with dignity.

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Everyone Supports Aging in Place. But Can We Actually Deliver It?

July 22, 2026 | Sandra Larson

Helping older adults remain in their homes has become a policy goal across the country. Making it happen is far more complicated.

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When Home Equity Isn’t Enough: The Challenge Facing House-Rich, Income-Poor Older Adults

July 28, 2026 | Franklin Schneider

Older homeowners often fall into a catch-22: too much home equity to qualify for aid, but too little income to comfortably live in their homes. Some housing models aim to bridge that gap.

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For Older Renters, the Housing Crisis Comes with Higher Stakes

July 30, 2026 | Frances Nguyen

Seniors have long been more likely to own than rent. But the number of older renters is growing, and they’re especially vulnerable to rising housing costs, inaccessible buildings, weak tenant protections, and homelessness. Here’s why the stakes are higher later in life.

From the Field

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Federal Rule Change Denies Immigrant Businesses Access to Guaranteed Loans

Anju Chopra

Businesses owned by immigrants, including green card holders, have been deemed ineligible for federal Small Business Administration loan support. Commercial corridors across the country are already feeling the effects of this ill-conceived policy change.

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HUD Funding Notice Upends Housing Counseling Assistance

Cristy Villalobos-Hauser

For decades, a national network of more than 4,000 HUD-certified housing counselors has helped families, renters, and homebuyers make ends meet. A change in the rules announced in the latest department funding notice puts this system at risk.

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Banks for the People: Why Federal Home Loan Banks Need a Reset

Dawne Troupe

The Federal Home Loan Bank system was formed in 1932 to support mortgage lending that would make housing more affordable. But when the savings and loan system fell apart in 1989, the FHLB veered away from this mission. It is time to reset it.

Opinion

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Proposed Federal Rule Would Undercut Fannie and Freddie’s Duty to Serve Underserved Markets

Doug Ryan

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is proposing to significantly change how it enforces Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s duty to serve underserved mortgage markets. Comments from the public are due July 24.

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We Really Need to Talk About Substandard Housing in Alabama’s Black Belt

Sharlene Newman

When this researcher moved back to her home state to direct a research institute, she thought she knew rural Alabama and its needs. But she was wrong. "I found myself unprepared for the extent of the rural housing crisis here."