housing crisis

Denver Basic Income Project Could Run Out of Funding by Year End

Jennifer Oldham / Collective Colorado Oct 10, 2024 One of the nation’s largest guaranteed monthly income experiments gives unhoused people up to $1,000 cash every month with no strings attached. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

TD Original

Eat, Pray, Pollute

Christopher Ketcham / Truthdig Sep 26, 2024 In Barcelona and beyond, people are rising up against a tourism industry that strains infrastructures, commodifies culture and destroys ecosystems. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Social Justice

The Cruel but Not Unusual Treatment of the Unhoused

Cedar Monroe, Liz Theoharis / TomDispatch Sep 9, 2024 There is a crisis of homelessness in this country that politicians refuse to treat with dignity. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Politics

Harris Releases First Set of Economic Policy Proposals

Jennifer Shutt / Louisiana Illuminator Aug 19, 2024 The vice president wants to tackle price-gouging on groceries, bolster the child tax credit and provide incentives for first-time homebuyers. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Business & Economy

California’s Urban Dream

Sachi Kitajima Mulkey / Grist Aug 3, 2024 Can an environmentally friendly city be built from scratch and help cure the state’s housing crisis? Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Editorial Cartoons

Wealth Gap

Peter Kuper Jun 13, 2024 Dig deeper

Courts & Law

Locked Up With No Place To Go

Liz Theoharis, Shailly Gupta Barnes / TomDispatch May 22, 2024 Instead of seeking solutions to end poverty, cities across the country are turning to the courts to criminalize the unhoused. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Social Justice

Criminalizing the Unhoused Costs More Than Housing Them

Farrah Hassen / Otherwords Apr 17, 2024 For the U.S. to truly address this crisis, we must transform our approach and recognize that housing is a fundamental human right, not a commodity. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Editorial Cartoons

Booming Economy or Inflation?

Jeff Koterba Apr 8, 2024 Dig deeper

Editorial Cartoons

In Debt

Peter Kuper Apr 1, 2024 Dig deeper

Interview

‘Traumatizing’: What It’s Like to Be Unhoused in Rural America

Susan Shain / High Country News Mar 15, 2024 The lessons learned after spending months embedded with unhoused communities in Oregon. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Economic Justice

Airbnb Drives Up Housing Costs for Everyone. Let’s Regulate It.

Sonali Kolhatkar / IMI Feb 1, 2024 Corporate landlords are buying up homes and converting them into short-term rentals, but some cities are fighting back. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )