Technology
When Landlords Make Exceptions
Even when landlords use algorithms for tenant screenings, exceptions to the rules are part of the process.
Tag: Housing
Impact Investing
Liquidity Is the Missing Elixir in Impact Investing
Impact strategies must reckon with the problem that capital is frequently trapped in highly illiquid investments with no prospect of exit.
Advocacy
Making the Case for Equitable Housing
Abundance and justice aren't mutually exclusive. Narrative lessons from three major advocacy movements of recent years.
Government
Could We Radically Redesign Homelessness Services Around Outcomes?
Why the current system is broken and what local governments, nonprofits, and philanthropists could do to change it.
Review
Cities
When Houses Are Not Homes
Peter Apps' Homesick argues that beneath the housing crisis of rents and shortages is a deeper history of community-unbuilding.
Philanthropy & Funding
Planning Equitable Cities
Smart Growth America's new Center for Zoning Solutions offers a headquarters for the zoning reform movement.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Community Beyond Resources
Ending homelessness is about housing. Except when it's not.
Philanthropy & Funding
Funding Community Ownership
A grassroots effort in Silicon Valley addresses the needs of the working-class immigrant community.
Cities
Seeking Rentals While Latino
Low-income white families in Los Angeles have easier time finding new rental housing than low-income Latino families because of access to greater resources and social networks.
Philanthropy & Funding
Crash Into Housing
How the Bama Works Fund mobilized private, public, and philanthropic capital to transform public housing