Edina Neighbors for Affordable Housing

A guide to the Section 8 program. Learn how to apply, how to qualify for a voucher, and what it’s like to live in Section 8 housing.

Section 8 vouchers should give low-income people the opportunity to live outside poor communities. But discriminatory landlords, exclusionary zoning and the federal government’s hands-off approach leave recipients with few places to call home.

Fire, garbage and homelessness increasingly plague the Golden State. For all its forward-thinking companies and liberal social and environmental policies, the state has mostly put higher-value jobs and industries in expensive coastal enclaves, while pushing lower-paid workers and lower-cost housing to inland areas like the Central Valley.

The accumulated effects of previous growth rates will widen the gap between slow growers like Minnesota and fast ones like Texas and California.

Enrico Moretti, an economist at UC Berkeley, has found that the sorting of highly educated Americans into certain communities has led to other communities falling behind.

The biggest metropolitan areas are now the most unequal.

A group of Minneapolis city council members are developing a proposal that would require landlords who want to sell rental homes to give tenants an opportunity to buy the property.

On a single night, more than 10,000 people in Minnesota were homeless last year — the highest number ever recorded.

Regional forecast: Household growth revised downward; population growth expected to slow.

A new study suggests that expanding access to healthcare for low-income people is associated with a significant reduction in the rate of evictions.

A new analysis indicates that rising prices have been quietly taxing low-income families more heavily than rich ones.

Viennese lawmaker Maria Vassilakou explains why the Austrian capital ranks so high on quality-of-life rankings, despite its rapidly growing population.

A secret agreement has allowed the nation’s homebuilders to make it much easier to block changes to building codes that would require new houses to better address climate change, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

The arrangement, in place for years, guarantees industry representatives a bloc of seats on two powerful committees that recommend building codes.

A federal program to encourage black homeownership in the 1970s ended in a flood of foreclosures.

“Racial discrimination persisted in the new market because it was good business, not simply because the industry was stuck in its old ways. Our failure to fully recognize this history has meant that housing policy continues to uncritically revolve around market-based solutions even as black homeownership rates fall to historic lows. It’s hard to uproot these predatory practices because race has been so important to the real estate industry’s bottom line.”

Prof. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is Asst. Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is an expert on housing policy.

In southwest Connecticut, the gap between rich and poor is wider than anywhere else in the country. Invisible walls created by local zoning boards and the state government block affordable housing and, by extension, the people who need it.