have turned to a new method to garner tax dollars for low-cost homes. By creating housing trust funds, local and state governments have been able to gather money from special taxes and fees, then use ...

The Pew Charitable Trust has a valuable new report on how state and local governments destroyed much of their potential low-income housing stock by banning or severely restricting "single-room ...

Rather than financing a new hospital wing or a cancer-treatment center, Kaiser Permanente’s latest investment is aimed at putting a roof over people’s heads. The nonprofit health-care giant, which ...

In big liberal cities, the most politically acceptable form of new housing—apartments officially designated as affordable—isn’t sold to the highest bidder or rented to the first tenant willing to pay ...

For developers trying to finance an affordable housing project, the process is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle — but every piece comes with a fee to take it out of the box and requires attorneys ...

An artist’s rendering for a proposed affordable housing development outside of Seattle, Wash. (CoStar Group) After 100 years of increasingly strict land-use regulations that particularly target the ...