Bernie and AOC’s Green New Deal for Public Housing Act Would Transform America Bernie and AOC’s Green New Deal for Public Housing Act Would Transform America
The proposed legislation would cut 5.6 million tons of carbon emissions and create 240,000 jobs.
Nov 14, 2019 / Daniel Aldana Cohen and Julian Brave NoiseCat
Violence Is in the Air Violence Is in the Air
A new study shows that the rate of violent crime increases with the level of smog.
Nov 6, 2019 / Michelle Chen
How Staples Center Kicked LA Gentrification Into Overdrive How Staples Center Kicked LA Gentrification Into Overdrive
It was hailed as a turning point for a depressed downtown, but its construction helped start a wildfire of displacement.
Oct 31, 2019 / Jonny Coleman and Jacob Woocher
Amazon Is Spending Big to Oust Seattle’s Socialist Council Member Amazon Is Spending Big to Oust Seattle’s Socialist Council Member
The tech giant has poured an unprecedented $1.45 million to influence Seattle’s City Council races. Can Kshama Sawant keep her seat?
Oct 17, 2019 / Hallie Golden
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
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