Homeowners Need a Bailout Too Homeowners Need a Bailout Too
Representative Marcy Kaptur and economist Dean Baker discuss the housing crisis in this special presentation of 'Fighting For Our Homes.'
Feb 18, 2009 / Brave New Films
Will You Go Broke to Keep Your House? Will You Go Broke to Keep Your House?
Will Obama's $75 billion homeowner bailout plan work? Fair housing activists Sarah Ludwig, Paul Leonard and others discuss the foreclosure crisis.
Feb 18, 2009 / GRITtv
Foreclosed Americans Fight Back Foreclosed Americans Fight Back
As a horrified nation sees millions evicted, community organizations--and at least one lawmaker--advise them to hold their ground.
Feb 11, 2009 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Fighting for Our Homes Fighting for Our Homes
With Americans facing foreclosures and banks using bailout money to pay themselves, community organizing has proved to be the best defense for homeowners.
Feb 10, 2009 / Brave New Films
The People’s Sheriff of Chicago The People’s Sheriff of Chicago
A tenant protest compels Cook County's Tom Dart to suspend foreclosure evictions.
Feb 4, 2009 / Feature / John Conroy
A City Made of Waste A City Made of Waste
Across the border from San Diego in Tijuana, a spontaneous urban space is taking shape off the radar of city planners, as an affluent city sheds its aging houses and its pieces are...
Jan 29, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Teddy Cruz
Ticket to Ride Ticket to Ride
The greenest way to lift the country out of a deepening recession is to put people to work building mass transit.
AC Thompson on Victims and Vigilantes AC Thompson on Victims and Vigilantes
Nation contributor A.C. Thompson discusses vigilante violence in New Orleans in the days after the Hurricane Katrina.
Jan 23, 2009 / Brett Story
Is There Hope for the Homeless? Is There Hope for the Homeless?
Patrick Markee and Lizzie Ratner report from a New York intake clinic for homeless families in the Bronx.
Jan 23, 2009 / Brett Story
Hope for the Homeless? Hope for the Homeless?
With homeless rates at record highs, America needs a bold new housing policy.
Jan 22, 2009 / Feature / Lizzy Ratner and Patrick Markee