Nine tenants organized by the Debt Collective are refusing to pay back rent, hoping to inspire others to do the same.
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Tenants Launch US’s First Ever Rent Debt Strike Against Corporate Landlord Read Post »
Reporter Debra Kamin outlines the ethically dubious deals the Middle East envoy and his family are involved with.
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Trump Envoy Steve Witkoff and His Sons Blur Lines Between Profit and Politics Read Post »
This story is published in partnership with the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. For one California mother, public housing has been a lifeline for her household of five—her two young adult daughters, husband, and young nephew. She could not afford rent without the federally subsidized housing that they all share. It’s also a lifeline for another […]
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When Home Isn’t Safe: Immigration Enforcement Meets Housing Discrimination Read Post »
Despite his public call to “just kill” unhoused people, Brian Kilmeade continues to host “Fox & Friends.”
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Fox Host Apologizes for Saying Unhoused People Should Receive “Lethal Injection” Read Post »
Tenant union organizers from Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, and New York share hopeful news from the growing movement.
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Rising Tenant-Led Movement Aims to Bring Down Corporate Landlords Read Post »
A new report documents the wild and likely replicable success of Vienna’s public housing plan.
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Vienna’s Model Shows the Government Really Can Guarantee Housing for All Read Post »
New coalitions are forming to protect those targeted by Trump’s move to institutionalize unhoused people.
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Trump’s Answer to Homelessness? Lock Unhoused and Disabled People Up. Read Post »
On July 24, President Donald Trump issued an executive order for a nationwide push to involuntarily commit unhoused people to institutions—claiming that roundups would “restore public order,” and demanding the reversal of legal precedents and consent decrees that “impede” the policy, a draconian move that disability rights groups argue violates civil liberties. The resultant crackdown […]
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Ugly Laws: The Blueprint For Trump’s Anti-Homeless Crusade Read Post »
“When people are fighting displacement, they’re fighting for their class interests,” says Andrew Lee.
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Resisting the Authoritarian City, Block by Block Read Post »
HUD’s deputy secretary says the agency will speak in “one language” to fulfill its mission to help those in need.
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Federal Housing Agency Adopts English-Only Policy Read Post »
This week, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will remove homeless encampments from Washington, DC. It came at a press conference in which he declared a public safety emergency in the nation’s capital, despite violent crime numbers hitting a 30-year low. But the announcement also illustrated something else: The way the country approaches homelessness […]
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Trump’s Homelessness Crackdown Has Been Tried Before. It Didn’t Work. Read Post »
For years, mad and disabled people have been asking Americans to fight the criminalization of disability. Will they?
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Trump’s Executive Order Criminalizing Houselessness Reveals a Familiar Dystopia Read Post »
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