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Keeping our heads down and our language inoffensive is not the right response to the times we’re in. Solidarity and courage ...
The concept is simple: Twelve small houses—each no more than 600 square feet—arranged in a walkable layout along a central ...
A report claims there were thousands of instances of rent gouging. In some cases, landlords accused of exploitation made ...
In Springfield, Missouri, organizing by senior and disabled tenants at one Millennia affordable housing building has gotten ...
Total development cost, or TDC: The summed costs of financing housing: the cost of purchasing the land, hard costs (construction materials and labor), and soft costs (including design fees, legal fees ...
This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Kennell Staten saw Walker Courts as his best path out of homelessness, he said. The complex had ...
President Donald Trump has decided to end the Obama-era program that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants. Over the course of its five-year history, DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood ...
We share images from six of the cities around the country where members of three national organizing networks took action on ...
For more than a century, American reformers have struggled to remedy the problems of poverty in the places where low-income people live. At first, these social improvers could muster only a few ...
It takes some serious chutzpah to assert that the answer to homelessness is obvious, as a piece published earlier this year in The Atlantic does. If only “The Obvious Answer to Homelessness” actually ...
In anticipation of a Republican ascension to the White House, The Heritage Foundation—a right-wing think tank pushing regressive, oppressive, often draconian ideas—released a new “Mandate for ...
It was more than a decade ago when the National Housing Institute published a landmark report on shared-equity homeownership, or resale-restricted, owner-occupied housing for lower-income households ...