Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on housing, including the housing crises across the globe, tenants rights, private renting, homelessness, overcrowing, social and affordable housing, mortgages and their affordability.
For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will…
On 26 September, 2025 one of Berlinās longest sagas came to an end. After 15 years, 4 years over schedule, the renovation…
I entered the MARTA station at Peachtree Center in Atlanta at 5:45am on a Saturday. I needed to get to the Atlanta/Hartsfield…
Imagine you have a yearās stash of food, a huge garden and chickens for eggs, a rainwater collection system, a solar system…
Decarbonization is necessary to preserve life as we know it on the planet. But many would have you believe that we can…
Most of the time, landlords win. When I was evicted from my Chicago apartment in 1999, I had no legal rights to…
Providing decent pensions in an ageing society, overcoming the affordability crisis driven by skyrocketing housing costs, and creating better-paid jobs for workers…
Just as workers can withhold labor to halt production, tenants can withhold rent to challenge corporate landlords. In Los Angeles, a coalition…
Tenants across buildings owned by Pinnacle Group are testing whether collective power can force new arrangements with landlords and the city government…
Sworn in as mayor of New York just over one week ago, Zohran Mamdani is wasting no time beginning to govern. In…
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