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President Biden promised to expand the Housing Choice Voucher program so that everyone who qualifies for a voucher gets one. What exactly would that change entail, and how long could it be before we see it happen?

Multiple crises have merged: a crisis of democracy; a climate crisis with lives and livelihoods upended in the Gulf Coast, the Northeast and in the West; and an economic crisis in which millions are being cut off from Pandemic Unemployment Insurance

By striking down the CDC's eviction moratorium, said one critic, the Supreme Court "sided with rich corporate landlords that are itching to kick out vulnerable families."

Rent control means more money and control for renters and less for landlords. It’s why they hate it — and why we should fight for it.

Wang fears that millions of “invisible evictions” will occur over the coming months as landlords ratchet up the pressure on tenants, pushing tenants to “self-evict.”

"We really would like to see the state step in... Now is a moment to push for limited-equity co-ops and community land trusts as an alternative."

As the national eviction moratorium, originally created for the pandemic, is set to end on July 31, a new report finds that the real estate industry has been lobbying for federal regulators to end the policy for months.

Expanding Program Would Reduce Hardship, Improve Equity

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development can provide $10 million to tenant organizers each year, but the funding has largely gone unspent since the early 2000s. Will that change with a new administration and newly approved HUD secretary?