By Ben Beach & Saika Chen
This article first appeared in Next City
In the last two years, we’ve seen the extreme cases of minimum wage...
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Another Way Is Possible
It doesn’t have to be this way.
It can seem like the current dominant housing model in the U.S. is inevitable. Rooted in both individual and structural racism and sexism, driven by...
Luxury for Carson, Austerity for Us
PHOTO: Printed in the Guardian, Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
A statement from Liz Ryan Murray, project director of...
Housing-Rights Movement Has the Real-Estate Industry Running Scared
From California to Illinois to New York to Washington; organized tenants are standing up and fighting for their homes and their communities. Their work was featured in a great article in the...
Because They Work: Rent Control & Tenant Protections
By Leslie Gordon, Researcher at Urban Habitat and Master of Arts in Urban Affairs Candidate at the University of San Francisco
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‘Using his position for private gain’
PHOTO: Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, accompanied by his wife, Candy Carson, left, conducts a listening tour in Baltimore in June 2017....
A Tax Plan to Deepen the Housing Crisis
November 15, 2017
By Liz Ryan Murray, CarsonWatch Project Director
During one of the worst housing crises in our history, Congress is proposing...
Lawsuit against HUD by Civil Rights Groups
November 2, 2017
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
Kimberly Hall, <span...
Southern Renters Rising
By Malcolm Torrejón Chu
It was so amazing to see all of the work, the detailed...
The Long Road Home
By: Amanda Devecka-Rinear, Executive Director, New Jersey Resource Project
Nearly 5 years to the day since Superstorm Sandy made landfall in...