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Finding Safe Paths Through Suburbia
The post-WWII suburban settlement pattern assumes and reinforces car travel as the default transport choice for its residents. Do such settlements have a future when the temporary energy bonanza of the...
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Media Blame Homelessness on Substance Abuse. The Data Tell a Different Story.
A new study from Pew Charitable Trusts shows that four U.S. cities that saw low rent growth also saw decreases in homelessness. In California, government officials have blamed the Ninth Circuit...
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As Cities Resist Affordable Housing, This Homeless Shelter Fought Back and Won
On August 5, 2023, advocates for people experiencing homelessness in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, scored an upset victory. They opened a 20-bed shelter for short-term guests in a donated building...
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Priced Out and Fed Up, Tenants Demand a National Renters Bill of Rights
Dozens of tenant activists who rent homes and apartments backed by federal mortgages across the country converged on the offices of a corporate mega-landlord in Washington, D.C. on Friday with a clear...
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How a Trailblazing Tenants Union Forced a Mega-Landlord to the Bargaining Table
Things looked bleak on Blake Street when, at around 3:30 p.m. on August 19, Jessica Stamp and 15 of her neighbors found eviction notices taped to their door. Ocean Management, Stamp’s landlord and one...
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Housing Should Build Community, Not Wealth
Too many of us have to depend on sheer good luck to make it—especially when it comes to putting a roof over our heads. We grow up hearing that hard work alone will lift us above the hardships we’re...
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New Tools Are Helping More Tenants Than Ever Fight Eviction and Rent Debt
On November 14, 2023, Liz Ruvalcaba was served with a summons and complaint notifying her that a lawsuit had been filed by her landlord to evict her from her home. It didn’t come as a shock. One week...
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In the World’s Wealthiest Country, Housing Should Be a Human Right and a...
Too many of us have to depend on sheer good luck to make it — especially when it comes to putting a roof over our heads. We grow up hearing that hard work alone will lift us above the hardships we’re...
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The Right to Housing, Not Vacation Homes
Americans have been on a vacation binge since the easing of COVID-19 lockdowns, traveling for leisure in record numbers, and generating a major boom for the tourism industry. The vacation rental...
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The Rich Who Own the Home Next Door
Democracy or plutocracy? Which label better fits today’s US of A? An apt question to contemplate as we enter what could turn out to be our most harrowing political year since Abe Lincoln’s election....
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The Social Housing Secret: How Vienna Became the World’s Most Livable City
The first place that Max Schranz moved into after leaving his family home is the kind that many young professionals dream of inhabiting at the peak of their career. At only 26, he lives in a bright...
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Here’s a New Tool to Take on Predatory Landlords and Fight Evictions
Renting a home in the United States too often feels like a game you’re predestined to lose. Landlords jack up the rent, refuse to make necessary repairs, or evict you on a whim. Too many tenants are...
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Elite-Driven Housing Policy Has a Long Record of Failure
From the passage of Joe Biden’s subsidy-ladden infrastructure and climate legislation to calls from prominent liberals like Ezra Klein for a “supply-side progressivism,” Democrats appear to have...
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Finland is Successfully Fighting Homelessness
No more homelessness – a goal that sounds like utopian fiction may become reality soon. The “Housing First” concept in Finland, supported by NGOs like the Y-Foundation, is aiming towards the end of...
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McDonalds is Dumping their Rubbish in our Community
The Lindokuhle Mnguni Occupation in Rosherville, Johannesburg, organised strikes on Monday and Wednesday last week. On Monday South Rand Road was blockaded the whole day, from 3:00 am till 4:00 pm. On...
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UFCW Local Leads Fight to Win Washington’s Strongest Tenant Protections
Grocery and retail workers helped win the strongest tenant protections in Washington state last November for the 100,000 renters in the city of Tacoma. First we had to beat the mayor’s and city...
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Ancient Wisdom to Face Challenging Times
We wanted to introduce you to this beautiful article by El Habib Ben Amara, an architect and urban designer from a tribal ksar (fortified oasis) in Algeria, who’s been working with a partner of ours....
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Public Ownership of Housing Could Be Closer Than You Think
The housing crisis in New York is the worst it’s been in over five decades, and low-income residents are being hit the hardest. As a result, homelessness is on the uptick and working-class families are...
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Six Years Into Rent Strike, LA Tenants Union Will Battle Landlord in Court
This year marks the sixth year that the Hillside Villa Tenants Association (HSVTA) has been engaged in a ceaseless struggle to protect their homes in Los Angeles’s Chinatown. When the tenants first...
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The National Fight For Rent Control
In April 2015, the Pacific Standard (RIP to yet another quality outlet shuttered) published a defense of rent control—with an opening salvo declaring it dead. New York tenant organizers would go on to...
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