The U.S. housing market has been ensnared in a growing affordability crisis for decades. The problem has gotten dramatically ...

Poindexter Village in Columbus was the United States' second public housing complex. Groundbreaking planned for May to turn ...

Editor’s Note: This essay is adapted from The Projects: A New History of Public Housing (NYU Press, 2025) by Howard A. Husock, senior fellow in Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise ...

This is an in-person program at the Museum’s lower Manhattan gallery. As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, enduring ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Set inside a once-dilapidated 1938 building on Chicago’s near West Side, a one-of-a-kind museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America. A former federal housing ...

During the Great Depression, the United States government embarked on an ambitious era of public housing, creating almost 1.5 million units nationwide under the Housing Act of 1937. Located on Chicago ...

An affordable housing development under construction in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. An affordable housing development under construction in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. Deb Cohn-Orbach—Universal ...

It's so hard for the private market to build less-expensive housing that some local governments are experimenting with ...

Public housing in the United States, also known as “the projects,” quickly brings to mind images of high-rise towers, stories of gang violence, and physical dilapidation. These may not be universally ...