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.
How can we solve the housing crisis? Simple: have the government build more housing.
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For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership.
The Olympics are coming back to Los Angeles. But the games are notoriously bad news for poor people in host cities.
Today, segregation in America looks different than it did a generation ago. Neighborhood-level diversity is increasingly common and, correspondingly, that all-white neighborhoods aren’t as prevalent. However, even in diverse neighborhoods, divisions of race and class still exert their power. Most social institutions, churches, recreations centers, restaurants, barber shops and hair shops, schools, and civic associations remain segregated.
Veterans of the Contract Buyers League hit the doors again.
This book is an updated telling of the history of the federal government's role in creating our nation's racially segregated neighborhoods and all-white suburbs.
An in-depth investigation reveals that multibillion-dollar Big Ag corporations—including DuPont Pioneer and Monsanto—as well as small-scale farmers routinely use labor recruiters who crowd migrant workers in housing riddled with health and safety violations, such as bed bug infestations and a lack of running water. When state inspectors visit migrant labor camps, they find violations as much as 60 percent of the time.
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