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Undoing What Wall Street Did to the Housing Market

Billionaires have long leveraged the housing market for money. But a new report outlines how to regulate the market so people鈥攏ot hedge funds鈥攃an buy homes.

| Oct 25, 2024

The Rainbow Connection

Intergenerational housing for LGBTQ elders and youth can relieve isolation and housing instability for both groups.

Greg Hernandez | Nov 30, 2023

Community Land Trusts Build Climate-Resilient Affordable Housing

鈥淪torms are nature鈥檚 way of causing gentrification,鈥� so one couple bought property damaged by Hurricane Irma and placed it in a public trust.

Alexandra Applegate | Dec 1, 2022

Excerpt | Gentrification

9 Myths About Gentrification

It鈥檚 time to stop believing the lie that gentrification is inevitable.

Leslie Kern | Sep 16, 2022

How Wildfires Impact California鈥檚 Housing Crisis

Wildfires and the destruction they cause have become a societal problem. Addressing this issue comprehensively should include both short-term and long-term solutions.

Claudia Boyd-Barrett | Aug 3, 2022

Community Land Trusts Make Housing Affordable

Community land trusts have a long history of helping people afford a home. In a time of skyrocketing housing prices, that鈥檚 more important than ever.

Alexander Thompson, Jocelyn Yang | May 2, 2022

How Dallas Is Fighting Homelessness With COVID Aid

Federal money for housing the pandemic wasn鈥檛 being spent. The city found a way to make sure more people were being housed sooner.

Kristian Hern谩ndez | Feb 14, 2022

Opinion | Native Leadership

Smoked Salmon for Amelia: A Native Perspective on Homelessness

鈥淭he ultimate cause of homelessness is our spiritual break with the land.鈥�

Frank Hopper | Jan 13, 2022

Opinion | Gentrification | Housing

Housing Justice for Oakland鈥檚 Black Community

Unaffordable housing is a major factor that drives Black Oaklanders out of the California city鈥攕o what can we do about it?

Denzel Tongue | Jan 5, 2022

In Boston, an Approach to Housing That Avoids Eviction

A major for-profit affordable housing provider hasn鈥檛 evicted a single tenant since early 2020. How did the company do it, and can its method be a model for other developers?

Shelby R. King | Dec 29, 2021

Baltimore鈥檚 Community Land Trusts Offer a Pathway to Housing Justice

After years of grassroots activism, the city has found success in addressing historical housing discrimination through community land trusts.

Jaisal Noor | Oct 22, 2021

States Are Buying Hotels to House Displaced Wildfire Survivors

The climate crisis and the pandemic are spurring local governments to take action鈥攁nd finally begin to address chronic homelessness.

Julie Strupp | Sep 21, 2021

Lack of Housing Is Not the Problem

One parcel at a time, Bay Area activists are pushing for land trust housing to decommodify land and take properties out of an unjust market.

Andrew Lee | Aug 10, 2021

Philadelphia Tries Mediation to Prevent Evictions

The coronavirus pandemic has put pressures on tenants who lose work, and the landlords who lose rent income. This program tries to help both.

Emily Nonko | Mar 31, 2021

Taking on a Billionaire Landlord in the Twin Cities

Private equity firms snatched up rental properties, then neglected them. So Minneapolis activists organized the tenants to fight for their rights.

Chuck Collins | Mar 17, 2021

How the Pandemic Is Opening the Door to Housing Access

The coronavirus spread fast in homeless shelters, which prompted creative solutions to safe housing.

Isobel Whitcomb | Mar 3, 2021

Seattle Bets on Equitable Development

In an effort to counteract displacement in racially diverse neighborhoods, Seattle鈥檚 Equitable Development Initiative invests in community-led projects that aim to keep longtime residents in their neighborhoods.

Isabella Garcia | Feb 17, 2021

What Housing Justice Looks Like During COVID

The pandemic has exacerbated housing instability and made tenant activism more critical.

James Tracy | Nov 30, 2020

Opinion | Housing | Redlining | Racial Justice | Racial Equity

Opinion

Now Is the Time to Take Radical Steps Toward Housing Equity

It鈥檚 time to think big about housing. No more evictions and foreclosures. Rent and mortgage cancellation on a grand scale. Twelve million new green housing units in the next 10

Chris Tittle | May 6, 2020

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