A program in Vermont makes homeownership more accessible by covering down payments and then splitting the resulting profits.

It could be the most important lesson from the Great Recession.

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.