Housing is a very special type of good. It is essential for society since everybody needs a place to live and it…

Contrary to the New York real estate industry’s propaganda, reducing evictions and strengthening affordable housing protections actually reduces crime and violence. As…

In Portland, Ore., earlier this month, Mayor Ted Wheeler announced yet another major push to bring down homelessness in the city. Portland would open…

Declaring that homelessness and housing insecurity is the result of “a structural failure of a country that has refused to make safe…

With billions of dollars of cash on hand, and millions of working-class families unable to find affordable housing, corporations are increasing their…

In 1937, the American folklorist Alan Lomax invited Louisiana folksinger Huddie Ledbetter (better known as Lead Belly) to record some of his songs for the…

Private police officers guide a line of late-model SUVs through the January morning’s cold rain into a lane of Louisville’s Grinstead Avenue,…

The words “housing is a human right” used to appear in bright colors on a painted placard at the gateway to Wood…

You can’t have a living wage without sufficient affordable housing, and you can’t afford decent housing without a living wage.  These claims…

We’re in the middle of an affordable housing crisis. We can’t solve it without drastically increasing government funding for public housing. Brenda…