Seniors, especially those who live alone, face the same resistance as recent college graduates in an economic and political environment that still promotes the costly option of a single-family home with a front lawn and two-car garage.

Joe Talbot’s film raises the question: what does it mean to belong to a place?

The homeownership gap between white and black families is as wide as it was in the 1960s, and the remaining barriers to integration include restrictive zoning and newly tightfisted banks.

City planners are increasingly alarmed by two trends: a growing shortage of affordable housing and a nationwide decline in public transit ridership.

Escalating rents and home prices have created invisible walls around communities all over the United States.

David Simon and his team revel in the weeds of late 1980s housing policy.