To help ease the burden of finding affordable housing, officials in Buena Vista say businesses can allow employees to live on their property—but only temporarily. Reporting by Robert Davis; ready by John Ludas.

Read the full story at https://shelterforce.org/2025/11/05/inside-the-colorado-town-where-public-camping-is-considered-workforce-housing/

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A commonly used billing system can allow landlords to quietly shift building utility costs onto tenants. Tenants say it’s time to break open the black box. Reporting by Roshan Abraham. Read by John Ludas.

Read the full story at https://shelterforce.org/2025/10/10/la-tenants-strikes-forced-a-major-landlord-to-refund-opaque-utility-fees-their-fight-isnt-over/

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Tierra Colectiva, a community land trust in the Denver neighborhoods of Globeville and Elyria-Swansea, combines community organizing, traditional CLT development, and more unusual roles in a large affordable housing development. Listen to, "Denver Land Trust Fights Displacement Whether It Owns the Land or Not." Reporting by Amanda Abrams; read by Miriam Axel-Lute.

Read the full story at: https://shelterforce.org/2025/10/14/denver-land-trust-fights-displacement-whether-it-owns-the-land-or-not/

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The Naugatuck Valley Project grew out of factory closures and layoffs in the 1980s. But this interfaith and labor coalition also helped to not only found but sustain a group of affordable housing cooperatives in suburban Connecticut. Jill Webb reports.

Read the full story at https://shelterforce.org/2025/10/09/this-multi-issue-interfaith-organizing-group-has-supported-six-housing-co-ops-for-decades/

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A temporary window of flexible funds in the early 2020s allowed many queer- and trans-led organizations to achieve long-held dreams of owning their own buildings and housing their members. Shelterforce's Miriam Axel-Lute reports.

Read the full story at https://shelterforce.org/2025/10/15/a-space-of-our-own-lgbtq-organizations-move-to-ownership/

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Jacob Folger spent 13 years of his life homeless, starting when he left home at 14 to escape a violent father. He joined the army at 18, and became a handyman when he completed his tour of duty. He employed and housed homeless people through his business in Herdon, Virginia, and later ran a small private home for those leaving homelessness in New York City. Listen to his poem, The Homeless Stretch. Read by John Ludas.

Read the poem and learn more about Folger at www.shelterforce.org

Gretchen Beesing, senior fellow at the Center for Community Investment, provides us with five steps to have economies operated by stewardship, not speculation. Read the full story at https://shelterforce.org/2025/10/16/what-would-it-take-to-make-community-ownership-the-rule-not-the-exception/

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As homeowners’ insurance companies and lenders increasingly factor climate risk into their business strategies, communities may see a resurgence of racial and economic exclusion that mimics redlining. But our hands aren’t tied—we can do something about it. Monica Palmeira, associate director for economic equity at The Greenlining Institute, reads, "Lessons from Redlining: How We Can Prevent Climate-Driven Insurance Discrimination," an op-ed she co-wrote with Sharon Cornelissen, the director of housing at the Consumer Federation of America.

Read the op-ed at https://shelterforce.org/2025/10/14/lessons-from-redlining-how-we-can-prevent-climate-driven-insurance-discrimination/

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The Homes for the Future fund aims create long-haul affordability without public funding by buying homes now and selling them to community land trusts after a period of renting them out. Reporting by Roshan Abraham; read by John Ludas.

Read the full story at https://shelterforce.org/2025/09/26/a-no-subsidy-model-for-getting-homes-into-community-ownership/

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Samuel Stein, a housing policy analyst, and Susanne Schindler, a research fellow at Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, discuss what it means—or could mean—to have resident control over property management.