Opponents of new housing often say schools can’t absorb all the students it will bring. But the data tells a different story.

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This Baltimore program provides four lessons about how school building investments can support community development goals, ...

College-focused rapid rehousing aims to support students facing housing instability all the way through graduation.

Turner has recently been focused on education policy, but worked on Opportunity Zones under the first Trump administration.

Shelby R. King is Shelterforce's investigative reporter. She began her reporting career in 2010 covering cops/public safety and has been writing about housing and community development since 2014.

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Stable, healthy, decent affordable housing sets children up for educational success, and allows schools to be able to focus on what they do best. Shelterforce’s Miriam Axel-Lute breaks down the ...

Under the Lens series are Shelterforce’s deep dives into specific topics. Here you’ll find features, explainers, solutions, opinion, and conversation around crucial themes in housing and community ...

In this Under the Lens series, we'll explore the ways the educational justice and housing justice movements overlap, why it’s challenging for these two spheres to work together, and much more. New ...