California’s Reckless Supreme Court Gambit
The state should help local governments develop reasonable short-term plans to alleviate the problem while they focus on developing the massive number of affordable housing units needed for a long-term…
The Rent Is Still Too High
Housing prices are spiraling alongside homelessness. To solve this crisis, we need to recognize housing as a human right.
Our Housing Crisis Is Literally Killing People
Amid unimaginable tragedy, we must recognize the failure of a society that refuses to provide safe and secure housing for every single person.
In the World’s Wealthiest Country, Housing Should Be a Human Right and a Community Builder
The focus on zoning, commerce, and profit-maximization does a disservice to the rich sense of community affordable housing can create.
Los Angeles Mayor Orders Residential Hotels to Be Opened for Temporary Shelter
Since 2008 city law has required hotels used as primary residences to be preserved.
Abandoning the Poor
Or Confronting the Needless Scourge of Poverty.
The Housing Crisis and Migrant Crisis Are Exasperated by Capitalism
As thousands of people come to the U.S. seeking shelter, politicians around the country are claiming that housing in the U.S. is already in crisis and that there is no…
L.A. Promised to Preserve Low-Cost Housing. These Tenants’ Homes Were Turned Into Hotel Rooms Anyway.
When the American Hotel converted into a tourist hotel, its long-term residents lost not just their affordable housing but the creative community that long thrived in the iconic building.
Why Are There No Slums in China?
Walking through China’s cities, you will quickly notice the absence of large slums or pervasive homelessness common to the rest of the world.
How Small Wealthy Suburbs Contribute to Regional Housing Problems
By Paul G. Lewis, Arizona State University and Nicholas J. Marantz, University of California, Irvine / The Conversation The odd headlines about little towns in the San Francisco Bay Area…
Checked Out: How LA Failed to Stop Landlords From Turning Low-Cost Housing Into Tourist Hotels
Fifteen years ago, Los Angeles passed a law to preserve residential hotels as housing of last resort. Now, amid the homelessness crisis, some hotels may be violating that law by…
The Death Penalty for Homelessness
By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch You can measure the depth of a civilization by how it treats its poor, very young, elderly and mentally ill. By any such metric, ours…
Largest US Corporate Landlords Reap Huge Profits Amid Double-Digit Rent Hikes
"These companies fueling the housing affordability crisis are among many corporations across industries that have shamelessly profiteered."
How Investors Accelerate the Affordable Housing Crisis
Investor purchases accounted for 24 percent of all residential real estate sales in Boston in the fourth quarter of 2022. A 10 percent tax on those sales could yield $82…
The Revolution Against Shady Landlords Has Begun
In New York, the real estate industry and the politicians in its pocket both reign supreme. These tenants have a plan to change that forever.