EPA Terminates Already-Awarded Climate Funding
The Environmental Protection Agency says $20 billion in green funding for low-income communities was mismanaged and issued with political bias, but so far the agency hasn’t produced the evidence needed to legally block the grants. Three nonprofits have filed suit. Shelterforce's Lara Heard repor ...
"The Parade," Works of Social Commentary by Philly-Based Spiral Q
New Jersey's Grounds for Sculpture exhibited works by Spiral Q, a Philadelphia organization that mixes art and social commentary.
Reporting by Lara Heard
Read the story and see the photos at: https://shelterforce.org/2025/04/29/art-the-parade-works-of-social-commentary-by-philly-based-spiral-q ...
Detroit Says Problems With Property Tax Assessments Are Fixed. Advocates Disagree
With higher-valued properties under assessed and lower-valued properties over assessed, advocates say there's still a problem with Detroit's property tax system. Listen to "Detroit Says Problems With Property Tax Assessments Are Fixed. Advocates Disagree." Reporting for this story is by Roshan A ...
Why Does Habitability Matter? Health and Our Housing Stock
Whether your home is safe and suitable for healthy living depends on a variety of factors. Shelterforce puts habitability under the lens to show how problems like inadequate heating, water damage, and pest infestations negatively affect your health and further exacerbate the housing crisis. Shel ...
Beyond Basic Health Standards: Designing for Well-being
Ross Chapin, an architect, provides a guide to affordable housing design that goes beyond the baseline. This piece appears in Shelterforce's new series—Fit to Live In: Fixing Our Housing Stock—and is read by Lara Heard.
You can read it at https://shelterforce.org/2025/11/25/beyond-basic-health ...
What Makes a Habitable Rental Home?
Almost every state in the U.S. requires that landlords maintain safe and livable residential units. This is often called a "warranty of habitability." In some places, there are laws that specify exactly what those requirements are; in others, the standards are less defined. Read by author Lara H ...
Fit to Live in: From Ordinances to Outcomes in Habitability, a Shelterforce webinar
What makes a home habitable? What makes habitability laws successful? Listen to, "Fit to Live in: From Ordinances to Outcomes in Habitability," a webinar featuring Lara Heard, Shelterforce's associate editor; Matt Kreis, general counsel at the Center for Community Progress; and
Y. Frank Southal ...
State and Cities Advance Affordability by Lowering Utility Costs
Climate funding from the federal government has become unreliable. But state and local programs in the Northeast offer alternative ways to make homes more efficient for low-income residents and reduce their utility bills. Listen as Lara Heard reads her piece, "State and Cities Advance Affordabil ...
Houston Artists and Homeless Residents Collaborate to Create Public Art
In Houston, where a Housing First strategy has dramatically decreased the number of people without a place to stay, artists and unhoused residents teamed up to create public art works. Listen as Lara Heard reads her article, "Houston Artists and Homeless Residents Collaborate to Create Public Ar ...
Homelessness in an Age of Criminalization
These are challenging times for fighting homelessness. Who's doing the work, and what's holding back their progress? Shelterforce's Lara Heard explains what you can expect in our new Under the Lens series, Shifting Ground.
Read Lara's editor's note here: https://shelterforce.org/2026/10/13/hom ...
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