While young people who spent the first year of their lives in public housing started with higher levels of behaviour ...

New York’s public housing system was once heralded as a progressive triumph. But because most of NYCHA’s buildings were built in the mid-20th century, many are due for updates and repairs.

National Museum of Public Housing leaders hope visitors see there’s more to life in public housing than what's on the news.

DCHA has 8,084 traditional public housing units. The report notes occupancy has been “on a continual decline” in recent years. In June, 1,628 units were vacant, the report says.

Nearly 75 years after amending the state Constitution to make it harder to build public housing, California voters will have a chance to repeal the provision on the 2024 ballot.

In New York City alone, there are 227,000 on the wait list for public housing apartments, and 200,000 waiting for vacancies in the city’s 112,000 housing voucher (a .k. a Section 8) apartments. 4 ...

For background, the county’s Housing Opportunities Commission (HOC) is not just a public housing authority, but a housing finance agency and public developer as well.

As Massachusetts grapples with a housing crisis, 184,000 people have applied for a home in the state's public housing system. Yet, units sit vacant for years because of the state's inefficient ...

The path out of Oregon's homelessness crisis isn’t simple, nor is it direct. But solutions do exist. To uncover them, it’s important to first understand the origins of this crisis.

A raccoon invasion. Human feces in the lobby. Flooding. Avoid these apartment nightmares by reading a ProPublica investigative reporter’s guide to backgrounding your next New York City rental.

It was called the Plan for Transformation, the most ambitious public housing makeover in U.S. history. Under the plan, launched in 2000, the Chicago Housing Authority would demolish most of the ...

Mass. has a huge waitlist for state-funded public housing. So why are 2,300 units ... such as background checks. The secretary of housing said he expects improvements soon but doesn’t know ...