A New Orleans resident facing eviction barricaded himself in his apartment last week and fired an assault rifle into his neighborhood. As Jordan Flaherty of Justice Roars reports, the incident highlights the housing crisis that's deepening in that city and others around the nation. More...

Is New Orleans' housing crisis a human rights violation? United Nations Special Rapporteur on Housing Raquel Rolnik will be in New Orleans this week gathering evidence. More...

This week the Galveston Housing Authority finally announced plans to rebuild 569 housing units of public housing. But the decision has met controversy from all sides, with the most recent public meeting on the rebuilding plan ending in a yelling match. More...

In light of the continuing affordable housing crisis in post-Katrina New Orleans, advocates are worried about the local housing authority's lackluster efforts to inform residents about a rare chance to get housing assistance. More...

Cities and towns across Mississippi are still trying to recover from hurricanes Katrina and Rita, but their efforts are complicated by what community advocates call misplaced priorities. More...

This is the first year that Congressional leadership and the U.S. president did not travel to the Gulf Coast to honor the anniversary of our nation's largest disaster. Leaders in Washington still have much to learn from community leaders on the ground working every day to restore their neighborhoods, reports Jeffrey Buchanan. More...

Progress has been made on many fronts in the last few years, but New Orleans' housing crisis shows how federal and state policies have failed to help the region's most vulnerable residents rebuild. More...

New Orleans' low-income residents and communities of color are finding themselves locked out of housing in the city. More...

An United Nations advisory group headed to New Orleans this week on a fact-finding mission to investigate housing issues related to the displacement of Gulf Coast residents following Hurricane Katrina. More...

A month into the 2009 hurricane season, and almost four years since hurricanes Katrina and Rita blew threw the Gulf Coast, federal authorities still aren't ready to handle another Katrina-scale disaster. More...

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour won't let calls from housing advocates and lawmakers deter his plans to divert $570 million of federal hurricane recovery funds from a housing program to the expansion of the Port of Gulfport. More...

A recent study found that housing costs for both renters and homeowners in New Orleans was less affordable than for the nation as a whole. More...

Last week a UN special rapporteur on racism offered recommendations to the United States to address ongoing issues of racial discrimination, including the treatment of Katrina survivors. More...

In a matter of days, thousands in the Gulf Coast will face eviction from their FEMA trailers. Advocates are now calling on the federal government to intervene and extend the deadline, and uphold its promise to rebuild the Gulf Coast. More...

The Galveston Housing Authority is making plans to demolish two public housing developments even as public housing residents struggle to find affordable places to live. More...

Some of the nation's first black fighter pilots will have a chance witness the first black President take his oath. More...

The Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) is under fire once again this week. In a report released Friday federal auditors report finding poor conditions in New Orleans housing developments. The auditors also raised serious questions about the ability of... More...

Obama's pick for HUD secretary wins kudos from affordable housing advocates, who offer the incoming administration a plan to help the nation out of the current crisis. More...

As the world marks the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, housing advocates in New Orleans point to human rights violations here at home. More...