Housing and Homelessness

What Happens When You Age Out of Foster Care During a Pandemic?

What Happens When You Age Out of Foster Care During a Pandemic? What Happens When You Age Out of Foster Care During a Pandemic?

Advocates say state governors can instruct their state child welfare systems to keep kids in their care, even if they age out during this time—but will they?

May 19, 2020 / StudentNation / Jessica Suriano

The Murder That Threatened to Divide the Two Harlems

The Murder That Threatened to Divide the Two Harlems The Murder That Threatened to Divide the Two Harlems

After a Barnard student was stabbed to death in Morningside Park, long-timers and gentrifiers feared they’d find themselves at odds.

May 19, 2020 / Feature / Joan Walsh

LA Tenant Protest

Los Angeles’s ‘Eviction Ban’ Doesn’t Protect Tenants Los Angeles’s ‘Eviction Ban’ Doesn’t Protect Tenants

The city’s emergency measures will only delay a huge wave of evictions until later this year.

May 14, 2020 / Jacob Woocher

People looking at a destroyed home with trees

We Really Can’t Screw Up Disaster Season This Year. Global Health Depends on It. We Really Can’t Screw Up Disaster Season This Year. Global Health Depends on It.

Amid a pandemic, FEMA and HUD must be ready to provide renters with safe homes.

May 13, 2020 / Vanessa A. Bee

The Coronavirus Is Hitting Tribal Schools Hard

The Coronavirus Is Hitting Tribal Schools Hard The Coronavirus Is Hitting Tribal Schools Hard

Native students across the country are concerned what this crisis could mean for their universities in the long term.

May 13, 2020 / StudentNation / Mary Retta

Atlas Capital protest

Chinatowns Must Radicalize to Survive Chinatowns Must Radicalize to Survive

Direct action and inclusivity are driving the new Asian American movement.

May 11, 2020 / Promise Li and Esther K

A man walking with a face mask in Kibera, a slum of Nairobi

Africa Is Not Waiting to Be Saved From the Coronavirus Africa Is Not Waiting to Be Saved From the Coronavirus

If reporting doesn’t improve, the creativity and agency of swaths of humanity will be lost to history.

May 11, 2020 / Nanjala Nyabola

A Letter to My Landlord

A Letter to My Landlord A Letter to My Landlord

Scenes from a pandemic: 5

Apr 29, 2020 / Anna Flores

Yale Student

Students Across the Country Are Going on Strike Students Across the Country Are Going on Strike

Students say that universities, despite their massive endowments and ongoing fundraising, are not meeting their basic needs as they continue their education in the midst of a pande...

Apr 24, 2020 / StudentNation / Mary Retta

The Challenge of Treating 2 Epidemics at Once

The Challenge of Treating 2 Epidemics at Once The Challenge of Treating 2 Epidemics at Once

As overdose deaths climb, advocates and activists fear the opioid crisis will run headlong into the Covid-19 crisis.

Apr 23, 2020 / Sophie Pinkham

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