Acquiring and administering property should not be housing movements’ only goals — advocacy for affordable housing must be coupled with bottom-up control by residents.
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Ahead of the first 2020 presidential debates, Dems have released some of the most far-reaching housing plans in decades.
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The book under review documents a century of struggle against the partitioning of groups on the basis of race through property markets, constructions of community, and the scourge of neoliberalism, revealing racialist ideology and means to end it.
A tiny house program in Detroit helps people avoid homelessness, and get a head start on building equity.
The world’s real estate is worth an estimated $217 trillion, making up more than 60 percent of global assets. Even though three-quarters of that amount is tied up in housing, it hasn’t translated to secure shelter or prosperity for many...
Cuba survives, Yellow Vests meet, South Africa's new left party, Germans demands nationalized housing, New ferment in Mideast, Anti-Modi unity, New unions in UK, Slovenia's left
Support is growing for a referendum on whether to ban large landlords from the German capital and turn their property into social housing stock.
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