Across 21 states, voters will consider proposals to fund affordable housing, ease property taxes, strengthen tenants rights, and more.

A recently proposed HUD rule would allow all public housing authorities to institute work requirements and time limits, rather than just those in the Moving to Work program. But do they want to? About half of PHAs that have already tried these changes got rid of them.

Housing First has been the U.S.’s main homelessness policy since the Bush administration. Experts say it works—and that the Trump administration’s alternative doesn’t measure up.

These are challenging times for fighting homelessness. Who’s doing the work, and what’s holding back their progress?

In Evanston, Illinois, and Minneapolis, tenants organized against the same private-equity-backed landlord. In Evanston, the city provided financial support for tenant organizing while Minneapolis did not. Might this explain the difference in tenant outcomes?

Public housing authorities and other affordable housing landlords are turning to tech meant for short-term rentals to enforce smoke bans and noise rules—but a new lawsuit has evidence they are also constantly tracking tenants’ movements.