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Raising the minimum wage helps low-paid workers without damaging the broader economy, the authors of two new research papers find.

That’s according to the fourth and largest survey of college students’ ability to afford food and housing

Nearly half of all renters can’t afford rent, and over half a million Americans are homeless on any given night. How did we get here?

Local health care providers say they often struggle to address an individual’s needs outside the clinic, such as access to housing and transportation.

Call it boarding house 2.0. Startup PadSplit, based in Atlanta, has a novel approach to solving the affordable housing crisis—shared homes, with private bedrooms for residents (or members, as they’re called), fixed utility costs and a business model that makes it all profitable for property owners.

Nationwide, the arrival of white homeowners in places they’ve long avoided is jolting the economics of the land beneath everyone.

The Cook County Board on Thursday passed limits on the practice of asking potential tenants about their criminal histories, despite pleas to hold off until landlords and property owners had a chance to air their concerns.

Jonathan Rose is on a mission is to develop "communities that enhance opportunity for all." As the Founder and President of Jonathan Rose Companies, his firm’s work has touched many aspects of community health; working with cities and not-for-profits to build affordable and mixed-income ho

In the District of Columbia, low-income residents are being pushed out of neighborhoods at some of the highest rates in the country, according to the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, which sought to track demographic and economic changes in neighborhoods in the 50 largest U.S.