Affordable housing

The neighborhood's decline in the early 1970s had roots in a scandal surrounding a federal program meant to boost home ownership.

… and now plans to move back to Arizona.

In Ouray, Colorado, high-priced housing is a labor force issue.

Lee County in Southwest Florida, where the storm made landfall, still faces monumental challenges housing people displaced by the storm.

"The long-term goal has to just be structurally changing this untenable housing system that we have," said Carl Gershenson, the project director at Princeton University’s Eviction Lab.

Hurricane Irma damaged or destroyed already dilapidated trailer homes in Immokalee, Florida, in 2017. An effort to build permanent affordable housing is now getting off the ground.

Officials who help oversee public lands say they are seeing a lot more families living in these spaces.

Measures include supporting the production of mobile homes and tiny houses, and piloting new ways of financing. But federal money isn't all it will take to change how, and where, people want to live.

The high-end project is clearing motels that provide an informal safety net for low-income renters. Officials say the motels are rife with code violations.

A new book by Jenny Schuetz, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, sheds light on possible solutions.