Shelterforce is the only independent, non-academic publication covering the worlds of community development, affordable housing, and neighborhood stabilization. Dedicated from the beginning to everyone working to empower and support low-income communities, Shelterforce provides a venue for conversations that need to be had—on topics from community planning to racial equity, housing affordability to homeownership, and the future of community development. Shelterforce supports and challenges the community development field. We provide insight on policy, stories about what works and what doesn’t, and connections to related work, such as community organizing, health, immigrant rights, arts and culture, and financial well-being. We interview HUD secretaries and resident organizers, and open our pages to those on the front lines and those behind the scenes. We provide clear and understandable analysis of important policy issues to grassroots activists and practitioners, while channeling input from the grassroots to local, state, and national advocates and policymakers. Shelterforce began in 1975 as a “how-to” publication for tenant activists. Over the years our focus expanded and we began to examine a wider range of place-based community-building issues, but we’ve always kept the goal of empowering people to make real change in their communities. Shelterforce is a nonprofit publication. We are not beholden to a particular program, theory, approach, or constituency. We are dedicated to being useful to our readers and to fostering strong, vibrant, just, healthy places for everyone. --> Sign up for Shelterforce Weekly on our website: www.shelterforce.org Shelterforce is published by the National Housing Institute, a nonprofit 501c3 organization.