About the Future of Land and Housing Program: Housing instability in the U.S. has reached historic levels.  Across most metropolitan regions, housing costs have risen far faster than incomes, leaving millions of families cost-burdened and economically precarious. The country faces an estimated shortage of more than four million homes, while homelessness continues to rise and more than 10 million Americans face eviction each year. The impacts of this crisis are deeply unequal. Black and Latino households—especially families with young children—face disproportionately high rates of eviction and housing instability, and the racial homeownership gap is the largest since the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968.

The U.S. does not lack ideas for solving this problem—it lacks a coordinated capacity to identify the most promising solutions, refine them through implementation and public debate, and drive their adoption at scale. New America’s Future of Land and Housing program is buildi...