Whatever your aesthetic preferences, new construction is better on nearly every conceivable measure.

Researchers at UC San Francisco have released the largest representative survey of homeless people in more than 25 years.

The sociologist Matthew Desmond believes that being poor is different in the U.S. than in other rich countries.

What respondents tell pollsters doesn’t always make sense. But working out policy complexities isn’t the average voter’s job.

Material-cost inflation, anti-building rules, NIMBY attitudes, and barriers to innovation have created a housing-affordability crisis.

Across the country, communities are starkly divided, with African Americans living in one section and whites living in another, and a lot of people seem to be okay with that.