Social Housing:  
State and Local Strategies

Since the New Deal era, the federal government has been the primary funder of public housing — the most well-known form of social housing in the US. 

 

But Congress has critically underfunded public housing, which serves the lowest income households throughout the country. Creating a resilient national social housing ecosystem to serve everyone requires strong and strategic grassroots organizing across the US and at every level of government. 

 

We desperately need direct federal funding and support for deeply affordable housing, but communities must also find other means at the state and local level to meet the urgent and growing need for safe, decent, affordable housing for all.  

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Read our full paper on how housing justice advocates can leverage state and local resources to preserve and expand social housing at a large scale: