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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 fight to make it harder for landlords to evict their tenants

By Rachel M. Cohen

Where are all the apartments for families?

By Rachel M. Cohen

A renter’s guide to the Inflation Reduction Act

By Rebecca Leber

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

By Dylan Matthews

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

By Rachel M. Cohen

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

By Rani Molla

The most successful strategy for ending homelessness is under attack

By Rachel M. Cohen

Democrats eye new legislation to rein in Wall Street landlords

By Rachel M. Cohen

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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.

By Samantha Oltman and Adam Clark Estes

Our buildings are making us sick

By Keren Landman

Progressives have welcomed migrants. Now they need to house them

By Bryan Walsh

The housing market slowdown, explained in 7 charts

By Madeleine Ngo

Why does the WeWork guy get to fail up?

By Rani Molla

How state governments are reimagining American public housing

By Rachel M. Cohen

Mad about inflation? Blame your local officials.

By Alex Yablon

The great millennial migration that wasn’t

By Dylan Matthews

Evictions are life-altering — and preventable

By Rachel M. Cohen

The good and bad news about housing for LGBTQ Americans

By Rachel M. Cohen

How to fight the affordable housing and climate crises at once

By Rachel M. Cohen

Tax the land

By Jerusalem Demsas

The great population growth slowdown

By Bryan Walsh

3 ways remote work could remake America

By Jerusalem Demsas

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

By Jerusalem Demsas

I changed my mind on rent control

By Jerusalem Demsas

Democrats have no plan to fight housing inflation

By Jerusalem Demsas

The pandemic was hard for everyone — except maybe landlords

By Jerusalem Demsas

Could Zillow buy the neighborhood?

By Jerusalem Demsas

Congress isn’t going to save the housing market

By Jerusalem Demsas

House isn’t selling? Blame the ghosts.

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

By Jerusalem Demsas

California is ending a rule that helped cause its housing crisis

By Jerusalem Demsas

The housing crisis is the top concern for urban residents

By Jerusalem Demsas

In defense of the “gentrification building”

By Jerusalem Demsas

The “g-word” of urban policy

By Jerusalem Demsas

America’s houses are old. Low-income renters are suffering because of it.

By Jerusalem Demsas