Framing Brief: Unlocking America’s Small Dollar Housing Supply
FLH explores the barriers that impede access to small-dollar homes in communities across the U.S., and spotlights local innovations to address those barriers.
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Preventing Tax Foreclosures is the Best Way Local Governments Can Protect Heirs Property Owners
Heirs property represents an enormous source of wealth for millions of Americans, and particularly Black communities, but it is also an inherently risky form of ownership that leaves families vulnerable to loss through partition sales and tax foreclosures. The single biggest way local governments could protect heirs property owners is to make property tax relief programs more accessible.
Cities Need Housing for Families—So Why Not Help Build Them?
Building housing units and creating housing for families are not the same thing.
Journalism Spotlight: DC Preschool Teachers Fund, A Hidden Housing Crisis, and Death Doula Pay
The latest articles from Better Life Lab staff and journalists we support, bringing work and care challenges and solutions to life to raise awareness and drive action for change.
Reimagining Work-Family Stories at South by Southwest
A Roadmap to Beating the Mental Load: Unpacking Emotional Labor with Leah Ruppanner
The mental load is gaining attention. Sociologist Leah Ruppanner offers practical tools to overcome it in her new book.
Virginia’s New Paid Leave Law Closes the Loop Between Implementation and Policy
With a new paid leave law, Virginia has hard-coded some critical implementation lessons learned from other paid leave programs across the country.
Tackling the Housing Crisis Through One Year of the Rooftop
Our Future of Land and Housing team revisits some of the most exciting ideas from the first year of their contributor-driven blog.
Great Lakes Receiving Network: Our Roadmap
GLRN is a first-of-its-kind initiative to empower receiving cities across the Midwest to build more housing in preparation for future climate migration.
Little Nurses: What Happens When Children Take Care of Sick and Disabled Relatives?
In The Guardian, Better Life Lab Story Fellow Feylyn Lewis describes her childhood experience as a “little nurse” to her mother, and the many challenges millions of youth caring for their family members face today.