Tag: housing
Voters demand Biden take action to address ‘national crisis’ of rising...
"Biden must take it upon himself to use his executive authority in order to assist those who need it the most, or we will not only have a cost-of-housing crisis in this country, but a major homelessness crisis as well."
Housing is a human right—here’s how to make it a reality
The federal government has for years enabled the private market to make money off our housing needs. Now, as home prices and rents skyrocket, there is a simple solution: offer people a public option for housing.
What community land trusts can do for racial equity
"Community land trusts are a form of permanently affordable housing based on shared equity."
Millions facing eviction and joblessness get no immediate help from Trump’s...
Under Trump’s order, unemployed workers would continue receiving an additional $400 a week, but only once states put up a quarter of the money and set up a new system to distribute the payments.
Senate GOP slammed for allowing eviction moratorium to expire, putting millions...
"As a result of the Senate's failure to act, then leaving town, millions of vulnerable renters now stand on the brink of homelessness."
Bailout for the American people: Rep. Ilhan Omar introduces Rent and...
"In 2008, we bailed out Wall Street. This time, it's time to bail out the American people who are suffering."
Denver non-profit converts former hotel into affordable housing for homeless
“This really shows what we can do when we get creative about problem solving and affordable housing.”
Compassion versus greed
Why do we permit investors to latch on to apartments and neither live in them nor put them up for rent?
In an unequal America, empathy, not just housing, has become too...
Empathy for the plight of the homeless, meanwhile, is withering away, particularly among society’s most fortunate, as the social distance between that top and the rest of society widens.
The first guaranteed basic income program designed for single black moms
The Magnolia Mothers Trust is the first of its kind that specifically targets single Black mothers.
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Fed rate hikes won’t tackle the corporate profiteering behind inflation, experts tell Congress
"Interest rate hikes... will not address any of the underlying causes of our supply shortages and do nothing to address profiteering."
Peace activists hit the streets from DC to San Francisco
The Peace in Ukraine Coalition mobilized for negotiations, not escalation, in what CODEPINK describes as a proxy war threatening a direct war between the two most heavily armed nuclear nations; the United States and Russia.
The climate movement was built for a world before climate change—it’s time for a...
We need a mass movement that can deal with climate disasters by training people to both protect and mobilize their communities.
As falls Russia, so falls the world
Can the heroine of this story, true internationalism, survive the onslaught of lawless maniacs bent on reviving a world of unaccountable sovereigns and promoting a war of all against all?
Oil undercover: The sneaky ways Big Oil pushes its interests
Big Oil lied to us for decades about climate change.