Public Housing

If rent-control measures pass in all of the states and cities where they're currently on the table, nearly a third of all renter households in the United States could secure relief.

Over 50 years after the "Gautreaux" case began, the city's neighborhoods remain divided along racial lines.

Public housing is generally not good for your health, but newly renovated, environmentally friendly buildings could change that.

The Wire creator and former Baltimore Sun reporter talks about a historic public housing fight, race, and what makes white people go “batshit, batshit crazy.”

The country’s largest public housing agency says it’s made major progress responding to residents’ requests for repairs. Residents tell a different story.

Rent control has long been criticized by economists, but the list of theoretical harms often aren't observable in reality. With a lack of serious public housing funding, the policy may be one of the best, and cheapest, ways to protect low-income families.

The government has called the new Rental Assistance Demonstration program the "answer" to housing woes, but there's very little evidence to support that case.