That, in turn, closely reflects childhood poverty rates in surrounding communities.” The layers of segregation — in schools and in housing — adversely affect minorities, the authors said.

EST, Congress members Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Maxwell Frost (D-FL), along with national and local homelessness advocates, ...

Disability and poverty are deeply intertwined, and when they co-exist, the barriers multiply. Families with disabled children are more likely to experience financial hardship, social exclusion ...

The study found that more than 500 majority-Black neighborhoods have been affected by gentrification over the past 50 years.

Women keep New York City running, by working, caregiving, volunteering, and organizing; but too often they face barriers that ...

Jessie, 21, grew up in a housing commission, and when she bought her first home, she was overwhelmed with a sense of achievement. There was no bank of Mum and Dad to help her buy a property, and ...

PAPILLION, Nebraska — Nebraska’s big demand for affordable housing calls for big ideas, and the new Tallgrass housing project in Sarpy County is one developer’s novel approach to helping fill that ...

America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.

Most people borrow heavily to buy their real estate. Even those with multi-million-dollar homes tend to have mortgages and ...

Such segregation was an open secret in Chicago and the subject of decades of protest — Mr. Polikoff filed the case in August 1966, just months after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began his ...

Punitive fines, arrests, and sweeps don’t address the root of the problem: the lack of permanent, affordable, and adequate housing.

Newsom called the bills the “most consequential housing reform that we’ve seen in modern history in the state of California.” ...