Naturally occurring retirement communities, or NORCs, happen when residents live in the same place for decades. In some places, supportive service programs help older people get the health care they need.

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.

Elders are turning personal housing struggles into collective action, and challenging assumptions about who leads housing justice movements.

In recent years, the Democratic Socialists of America, both nationally and in many chapters, have committed to housing organizing, contributing to the rise of tenant unions while also altering their own organizations.

The roots of housing insecurity can be traced back decades to discriminatory policies and practices that have deprived Black seniors of the wealth that often provides stability in old age.

In 2015, Nepal adopted a new constitution that promised a right to housing. But a right to housing does not enforce itself, and a dramatic fight over what happens to residents of informal settlements in flood plains is underway.