Bond-Rating Agencies Have the Power to Destroy Radical Dreams Bond-Rating Agencies Have the Power to Destroy Radical Dreams
Moody’s threatens Berlin over a progressive housing proposal.
Oct 9, 2019 / Clark Randall
HUD Is Planning a Bureaucratic Pogrom Against Public Housing Tenants HUD Is Planning a Bureaucratic Pogrom Against Public Housing Tenants
Under proposed new rules, if a single member of a family is undocumented, the entire family can be evicted.
Oct 1, 2019 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
AOC’s Plan to Decommodify Housing AOC’s Plan to Decommodify Housing
With a new bill that complements the Sanders campaign’s policy, the representative wants to protect renters, not landlords.
Sep 25, 2019 / Sophie Kasakove
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Says There Is No Housing Crisis: ‘It’s Just Housing Under Capitalism’ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Says There Is No Housing Crisis: ‘It’s Just Housing Under Capitalism’
The author and academic tells The Nation, “We don’t have to live like this.”
Sep 24, 2019 / Q&A / Nawal Arjini
With Trump, We’re in the Realm of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ With Trump, We’re in the Realm of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
Roundups of the homeless, destruction of environmental and housing safeguards, collusion with foreign despots to savage reproductive rights—the president is an outlaw.
Sep 20, 2019 / Sasha Abramsky
Hands Off Exarcheia: Athens’s Anarchist Community Fights Back Hands Off Exarcheia: Athens’s Anarchist Community Fights Back
The police and Airbnb threaten to transform Athens’s radical enclave into a “tourist-friendly caricature.”
Sep 19, 2019 / Ella Fassler
Trump’s Plan to Solve Homelessness Is Horrifying Trump’s Plan to Solve Homelessness Is Horrifying
Democrats are right to be outraged—but their ideas aren’t much better.
Sep 18, 2019 / Jake Bittle
Who Broke Baltimore? We Did. Who Broke Baltimore? We Did.
Baltimore’s decline isn’t an accident. It took decades of government intervention and hundreds of millions of dollars.
Aug 8, 2019 / Emily Lieb
Eco-Apartheid Is Real Eco-Apartheid Is Real
The climate crisis is converging with a housing crisis. We need to tackle both with a Green New Deal for Housing.
Jul 26, 2019 / Daniel Aldana Cohen
Madison Is a Lefty Town—Just Not for Everyone Madison Is a Lefty Town—Just Not for Everyone
The newly elected mayor of Madison, Satya Rhodes-Conway, wants to advance racial equity in the most segregated state in America.
Jun 7, 2019 / Raina Lipsitz