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Housing

Vox’s coverage of housing policy: exploring questions about why it’s so expensive to rent or buy homes in America, how we can help prevent homelessness, what gentrification means, and more.

The big bet on “tiny homes” to fix homelessness

Cities are asking the Supreme Court for more power to clear homeless encampments

Some homeless people won’t go to shelters. Should they be left outside?

A bold new federal experiment in giving renters cash

How housing activists and unions found common ground in California

Mortgage rates are at a 21-year high. Here’s what that means for you.

What a landmark new study on homelessness tells us

An Airbnb collapse won’t fix America’s housing shortage

Oregon’s Gov. Tina Kotek opens up about the state’s housing crisis

Will limiting background checks make housing fairer?

The little-noticed court decision that changed homelessness in America

The fight to make it harder for landlords to evict their tenants

Where are all the apartments for families?

A renter’s guide to the Inflation Reduction Act

Seattle may have figured out how to get more poor people into better housing

Homeless encampments — and the debate over what to do about them — explained

It looks like people are actually moving back to San Francisco (really)

The most successful strategy for ending homelessness is under attack

Democrats eye new legislation to rein in Wall Street landlords

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Back to the future

Rethinking old ideas about what we eat, where we live and work, and how we power our communities.

Our buildings are making us sick

Progressives have welcomed migrants. Now they need to house them

The housing market slowdown, explained in 7 charts

Why does the WeWork guy get to fail up?

How state governments are reimagining American public housing

Mad about inflation? Blame your local officials.

The great millennial migration that wasn’t

Evictions are life-altering — and preventable

The good and bad news about housing for LGBTQ Americans

How to fight the affordable housing and climate crises at once

Tax the land

The great population growth slowdown

3 ways remote work could remake America

Black and Hispanic renters experience discrimination in almost every major American city

I changed my mind on rent control

Democrats have no plan to fight housing inflation

The pandemic was hard for everyone — except maybe landlords

Could Zillow buy the neighborhood?

Congress isn’t going to save the housing market

House isn’t selling? Blame the ghosts.

Realtor? Check. Appraiser? Check. Ghostbuster? Check.