Tag: Housing

Wall Street is buying up neighborhoods and communities across the U.S. In 2022, big investors bought more than one in every four single family homes…

Chicago wants to tax the rich to fund affordable housing. Their plan would raise the real estate transfer tax on million dollar homes, and lower…

Airbnb broke our housing system. In some towns up to 40% of available apartments are Airbnbs. But people are fighting back. When Irvine, California banned…

A historic wave of tenant organizing is on the verge of winning renter protections that would be attached to federal loans—affecting 1 in 4 apartments.…

Narrated by JT Chapman from Second Thought In January a massively powerful landlord sued to evict hundreds of tenants across the country.  The landlord had…

By Donald Shaw and David Moore, Sludge The coronavirus pandemic and widespread job loss put the squeeze on renters, many of whom were already facing…

This November, Portland, Maine will get the chance to vote on an ambitious economic agenda, including ballot initiatives that would raise the minimum wage, eliminate…

Video produced and edited by Jordan Zakarin and Ian McKenna Florida is now ranked the most unaffordable place to live in the country. Evictions are…

Video produced and edited by Jordan Zakarin and Ian McKenna San Francisco renters are taking on the city’s biggest landlord, aided by a groundbreaking law…

Graduate student workers at The University of California San Diego are demanding housing justice. Workers earn poverty wages and the vast majority struggle to afford…