Moms 4 Housing’s organizing victory highlighted the twin crises of homelessness and lack of affordable housing in many communities in America.
Housing
Posted inTAP
Just How Solid Is the Trump Economic Boom?
Today on TAP: Warning signs ahead for the U.S. economy
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Ridiculous D.C. Invite of the Week: Wells Fargo Sponsors an Affordable-Housing Panel
Axios’s lead sponsor-enabler Mike Allen leads a ‘hometown’ discussion presented by the giant recidivist bank.
Posted inHousing
The Business of Homelessness
NYC’s biggest shelter contractor makes millions, offers shoddy facilities.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Can Vacancy Taxes Bring Down Housing Prices?
Some California cities may be willing to try them.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Government Created Housing Segregation. Here’s How the Government Can End It.
No policy limits African American income, wealth, and education as thoroughly as housing segregation. Herewith, a plan to end it.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Democrats Get Serious About Affordable Housing
Ahead of the first 2020 presidential debates, Dems have released some of the most far-reaching housing plans in decades.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Benefits on the Line
The Trump administration has proposed to adjust how we measure poverty, in an ill-disguised attempt to cut benefit levels.
Posted inEducation in America
Gentrification, School Closings, and Displacement in Chicago
A former Chicago public school teacher sees school closings as part of a deliberate effort to push African Americans out of newly desirable areas so whites can move in.
Posted inWorking in America
Why Unions Must Bargain for Affordable Housing—and How
With housing costs gobbling up wage increases for union members and almost everyone else, labor must prioritize housing affordability.
