LibGuides: The Right to the City: Housing, Gentrification & Tenants Rights: Publications and National Housing Resources

Periodicals and Publications

Tenant/Inquilino Monthly, bilingual newspaper for tenants from Met Council on Housing.
City Limits "New York's Urban Affairs News Magazine"
Clearinghouse Review Bimonthly publication of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. Current and back issue content by subscription or purchase only.
Full text for vols. 1-39 (1967-2006) avaiable on HeinOnline (access with account or NY City Bar member login).

Gotham Gazette: Housing Daily news website covering New York City issues.

Housing Court Reporter (Published by Treiman Publications.) Unofficial source for New York landlord-tenant decisions. Annual volumes issued 1983-current. Available at:

New York County Public Access Law Library

Brooklyn Supreme Court Law Library

CUNY School of Law Library

Housing Law Bulletin Monthly publication of the National Housing Law Project.

Current issues and recent back issues by subscription only.
Free 2000-2009 archives online.

More Resources

National Low Income Housing Coalition
The NLIHC is a advocacy organization "dedicated solely to achieving socially just public policy that assures people with the lowest incomes in the United States have affordable and decent homes." (NLIHC website) The NLIHC website offers fact sheets on various initatives, data, and links.
National Housing Conference (NHC)
The NHC is not-for-profit organization "dedicated to helping ensure safe, decent and affordable housing for all in America." (NHC website) The NHC website offers news and publications.
National Housing Institute
The NHI is a not-for-profit organization "dedicated to fostering decent, affordable housing . . . for everyone." (NHI website) The NHI website offers research reports, a blog, and current and back issues of its publication, Shelterforce: The Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Building.
National Housing Law Project
The NHLP is a "law and advocacy center . . . dedicated to advancing housing justice for the poor." (NHLP website) Under its "Attorney/Advocate Resource Center," the NHLP website offers articles, sample documents, legal references and links, organized by topic. The NHLP website elsewhere posts guidebooks, training materials, news, outlines, and more. Some portions of the website are limited to registered users.
National Fair Housing Alliance
The NFHA is a not-for-profit organization "dedicated solely to ending discrimination in housing." (NFHA website) The NFHA website offers links to pertinent legal resources—including laws, regulations, HUD guidance, cases, and reports.
Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University
The Center is engaged in research in the following areas: community development, home repair, remodeling and green improvements, home ownership programs and policy, housing demographics, housing finance and policy, housing market trends and developments, rental housing, programs, and policy, and urbanization and housing
The Urban Institute
Urban Institute researchers monitor and assess housing market trends to provide timely, impartial data and analysis on the housing finance system, access to homeownership, rental housing affordability, and homelessness. We assess the effectiveness of housing assistance programs and educate policymakers and the public on how the housing finance system affects households, communities, and the broader economy.
NYU Furman Center
The Furman Center’s research examines the impact land use regulations, real estate development, and other public and private place-based investments have on the affordability and character of neighborhoods. We take an interdisciplinary approach, applying policy and legal analyses, as well as econometric techniques, to study critical current issues. Our current research focuses on four broad categories, which you can browse below for the latest information on our projects, publications and research teams.