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As advocates and service providers brace for an executive order on homelessness, HUD Secretary Ben Carson heads to Houston.
Read the Editor's Intro to our latest print issue of the NACLA Report, Radical Cities, focused on municipalism, housing movements, and local radical democracy in Latin America, from Mexico City to Montevideo.
Reader Comments: Impeachment and Rule of Law; Sanders, Warren and Trolls; Biden and corruption; Chicago Teachers Strike; Turkey, Kurds, Syria; "Glass Floor"; Housing; Puerto Rico; Resource: Stopping Workplace Sexual Harassment; Announcements (lots)
The Great Housing Reset has led to growing numbers of single-family homes shifting from owner-occupied housing to investment vehicles for large corporations.
Most tenants don't understand their rights, whether they have a legal defense in an eviction case, and whether they can get a better deal in a settlement.
The United States is in the middle of a massive housing crisis. The community land trust (CLT) model is highly flexible, and has huge potential for addressing the affordable housing crisis in America today.can help address it.
Minneapolis effectively eliminated single-family zoning in order to undo decades of segregation and create more affordable housing options. Other states are watching closely.
Acquiring and administering property should not be housing movements’ only goals — advocacy for affordable housing must be coupled with bottom-up control by residents.
Reader Comments: Trump's July 4th; Concentration Camps; Megan Rapinoe; Democratic Debate; Private Insurance; Karl Marx revisited; Paul Robeson Boulevard named; Queer Liberation; Say No to Rick Snyder; Housing Justice - Affordable for Whom? ...
Ahead of the first 2020 presidential debates, Dems have released some of the most far-reaching housing plans in decades.
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