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Academic Heavyweights to Naysayers: Rent Control Works

Patrick Range McDonald Housing is a Human Right
“While other proposed remedies to the housing crisis may take years before they impact housing costs, only expanding rent control can offer immediate relief to millions of people in danger of being forced from their homes.”

Wall Street Helped Create Jackson’s Water Crisis

Matthew Cunningham-Cook & Ricardo Gomez The Lever
A major credit rating agency jacked up interest rates in Jackson, Mississippi, curtailing infrastructure investments in the years leading up to the city’s recent disaster.

The 40-Year Robbing of Rural America

Olivia Weeks In These Times - Rural
Since the 1980s, says Professor Marc Edelman, financial capital has developed imaginative new ways to seize assets from small towns and rural areas.

Grassroots Voices: How We Won Georgia

Linda Burnham Portside
Georgia was the epicenter of the struggle for political power in 2020 and is again a central player in 2022, with races for governor and U.S. Senate up for grabs. Here are the perspectives of four leaders in the organizing efforts that won Georgia.