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.
We finally have some good news about housing affordability.
The surprising impact of better-designed public housing.
Apartments are safer and more affordable than single-family homes. Why do we treat them like a hazard?
The surprising truth about corporate investment in housing.
Ugliness has more to do with the housing crisis than you think.
A system built to stop government from doing harm stopped it from doing anything.
What Katie Wilson thinks national Democrats should learn from her win.
De-extinction, drinking, and a whole new thing that could end the world.
The affordability crisis is a growth crisis.
Can urban America learn to love kids again?
It’s time to rethink a key pillar of the American dream.
Can “affordability” be more than just a campaign pitch?
Tenants are going on strike against their landlords.
October’s “kitchen cabinet” tax will affect homebuyers and renters alike.
We’re the feds and we’re here to help (with your rent).
Where the “Yes in God’s Backyard” movement goes next.
What cities get right and wrong about tackling empty houses.
America never recovered from the 2008 crash.
Sprawl made suburbia affordable. Now it’s breaking it. Here’s what a new vision of the suburbs could look like.
The commonsense, zero-cost fix that Congress wouldn’t touch.
Reforming environmental rules is only a small step to rebuilding after wildfires.
California Democrats finally stopped outsourcing their policy judgment to their favorite lobbies.
Do we need apartment buildings to have two staircases?
Advocates are banking on a new use for federal housing vouchers.
The connection between housing and fertility rates has a missing piece.
Imagine how much worse things would be if the federal government had even more power than it does now.
Working full time and homeless in America.
The bipartisan case for abundance, briefly explained.
The Project 2025 plan called to end “housing-first” policies.
Spare bedrooms are America’s next housing market.
Why don’t you move?
Fires worsen our class divides, but how governments respond can make a difference.
The future of the state depends on how leaders rebuild after the Los Angeles fires.
From strip mall conversions to adult dorms, here are our favorites from this year.
Without enough houses for its growing homeless population, the city is using machine learning to make its process fairer.
Americans don’t have to look abroad for answers.
A brief history of how America’s public housing experiment was designed to fail.
What 3 new books reveal about where the housing movement goes next.
Voters this week approved a first-of-its-kind measure to pay property owners if cities don’t address camps.
Experts think they’ve cracked the code for how to actually convert empty office buildings into affordable housing.