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“I just don’t feel that police evicting people is a way to ‘protect and serve.’”

History, Taylor writes, is not repeating itself with housing inequality, but cyclically proceeding as an inevitable effect of a racialized system perpetuated by capitalism.

To paraphrase Antonio Gramsci, what serves the class in power is viewed as the natural order and common sense, and what doesn’t is blasphemy.

In cities where people are desperate for housing, why are there still empty properties?

Ahead of the first 2020 presidential debates, Dems have released some of the most far-reaching housing plans in decades.

Now they face foreclosure. Urban African American neighborhoods are hardest hit as nearly 100,000 loans have failed.

According to Berkeley author Randy Shaw, skyrocketing prices for all three forms of housing have created a generational divide, with major political implications for progressive city governments and advocates of affordable housing.

It's been an exciting and challenging summer for California tenants. The good news: through our collective power, we are fighting back. Here's just a slice of the work Tenants Together and our members, partners, and allies are doing this summer!

For the first time we have raw data on the magnitude of the eviction crisis that so many people in our communities already know from firsthand experience.

Over the course of their research, they conducted more than 100 interviews with tenants who are essentially renting from Wall Street firms. The report tells the stories of absurd rent increases, dangerous failures in property management, and high eviction rates. And, as the authors note, lower income families and people of color are disproportionately affected by these practices.