Affordable Housing

This budget season, the D.C. Council has an incredible opportunity to reflect on the lessons of progressive, pandemic spending. The Council will take its final vote on the budget on Tuesday.

The history of public housing is a complex one, with both successes and failures.

Queen Latifah broke ground on a community-driven real estate development project in her hometown of Newark.

Fudge says that when coupled with the full promise of the Biden administration's Build Back Better Agenda, this is a chance in a lifetime to fundamentally transition the way individuals and families are housed and supported in communities. Housing affordability also includes homeownership and support for making that pathway more accessible to a broader group of people.

The former home of Atlanta’s first Black mayor Maynard Jackson will be transformed into affordable housing.

A Black-owned real estate development company is fighting gentrification in Atlanta through the creation of affordable housing.

Queen Latifah is creating an affordable housing complex in Newark.

Two new housing studies shed light on the challenges Blacks face in finding quality, affordable housing.

Cook County’s Black population has declined for a seventh consecutive year.

New York's storied history of gentrification, gerrymandering and inflation makes affordable housing a convoluted issue.

President Obama made history on Friday by becoming the first U.S. sitting president to visit the Hiroshima bomb site in Japan. The city was destroyed 71 years ago by the world’s first atomic bomb, dropped by American forces. Prior to his arrival, a large crowd gathered by the memorial site. President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister […]

Ever since it was revealed that comedian Bill Cosby admitted to drugging women to have sex, he’s lost fans, major deals, and even a statue built in his honor. One thing that Cosby won’t be losing, however, is his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. “The answer is no,” Leron Gubler, Hollywood Chamber of […]