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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

By Rachel M. Cohen November 29

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

By Rachel M. Cohen October 10

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

By Rachel M. Cohen September 14

A bold new federal experiment in giving renters cash

By Rachel M. Cohen September 12

How housing activists and unions found common ground in California

By Rachel M. Cohen August 21

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

By Li Zhou August 18

What a landmark new study on homelessness tells us

By Rachel M. Cohen July 5

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

By Rani Molla June 30

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

By Rachel M. Cohen June 15

Will limiting background checks make housing fairer?

By Rachel M. Cohen June 14

The little-noticed court decision that changed homelessness in America

By Rachel M. Cohen June 12

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

By Rachel M. Cohen May 1

Where are all the apartments for families?

By Rachel M. Cohen April 23

A renter’s guide to the Inflation Reduction Act

By Rebecca Leber April 7

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

By Dylan Matthews April 3

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

By Rachel M. Cohen March 8

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

By Rani Molla January 18

The most successful strategy for ending homelessness is under attack

By Rachel M. Cohen December 15, 2022

Democrats eye new legislation to rein in Wall Street landlords

By Rachel M. Cohen December 2, 2022

Features

Back to the future

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

By Samantha Oltman and Adam Clark Estes October 24, 2022

Our buildings are making us sick

By Keren Landman October 24, 2022

Progressives have welcomed migrants. Now they need to house them

By Bryan Walsh September 21, 2022

The housing market slowdown, explained in 7 charts

By Madeleine Ngo September 4, 2022

Why does the WeWork guy get to fail up?

By Rani Molla August 17, 2022

How state governments are reimagining American public housing

By Rachel M. Cohen August 4, 2022

Mad about inflation? Blame your local officials.

By Alex Yablon August 1, 2022

The great millennial migration that wasn’t

By Dylan Matthews July 27, 2022

Evictions are life-altering — and preventable

By Rachel M. Cohen June 14, 2022

The good and bad news about housing for LGBTQ Americans

By Rachel M. Cohen May 11, 2022

How to fight the affordable housing and climate crises at once

By Rachel M. Cohen April 17, 2022

Tax the land

By Jerusalem Demsas March 4, 2022

The great population growth slowdown

By Bryan Walsh January 5, 2022

3 ways remote work could remake America

By Jerusalem Demsas January 4, 2022

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

By Jerusalem Demsas December 7, 2021

I changed my mind on rent control

By Jerusalem Demsas December 2, 2021

Democrats have no plan to fight housing inflation

By Jerusalem Demsas November 11, 2021

The pandemic was hard for everyone — except maybe landlords

By Jerusalem Demsas November 4, 2021

Could Zillow buy the neighborhood?

By Jerusalem Demsas November 1, 2021

Congress isn’t going to save the housing market

By Jerusalem Demsas October 27, 2021

House isn’t selling? Blame the ghosts.

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

By Jerusalem Demsas October 26, 2021