In his new book The Projects, Howard A. Husock explains the tragic rise and fall of public housing and the pitfalls of other subsidy programs.

The following excerpt is adapted from Howard Husock’s ‘The Projects: A New History of Public Housing,’ a forthcoming book from NYU Press. We hear a great deal about what’s called the black-white ...

No one is building new projects, but the old ones that remain keep residents trapped in poverty.

ANACMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx — A KRIS 6 investigation into the Corpus Christi Housing Authority reveals how executives, consultants, and developers have financially benefited from programs designed to help ...

The Trump administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development is planning to give public housing authorities across the country 30 days to identify and report immigrant tenants lacking ...

Louisville has gotten final approval to demolish one of the city's oldest public housing complexes.Dosker Manor in Phoenix Hill has a long history of issues.Louisville Metro Housing Authority began ...

The City of Jackson's oldest public housing complex, Allenton Heights, was demolished on Sept. 5. Built in 1941, the historical Allenton Heights came crashing down to make way for a new and improved ...

In Minneapolis, every landlord must be licensed and every rental home examined by a city inspector to ensure it meets basic standards of decency. Unless it’s public housing. Two women, tenants of the ...

The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, the current headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is seen on July 8, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) ...