Tracy Rosenthal

Bench Ansfield’s Born in Flames argues that landlords—driven by financialization and the development of insurance “brownlining” in the 1960s and 1970s—are largely to blame.

To clear universities of student protesters, administrators and police borrowed from a ready-made political playbook: sweeping the homeless.

As Grants Pass, Oregon—and the nation—await a Supreme Court ruling on just how far cities can police the homeless, a volunteer mayor and her unhoused constituents try to weather the backlash.

If McDonald’s is a real estate company that sells hamburgers, the U.C. system is a real estate company that sells degrees. Grad students are striking not least so they can afford to live where they work.

A leaked tape recording council members’ racist slurs demonstrates the deep alliance between real estate interests and the state.

Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy; it’s an example of the system working exactly as intended.

These public-private partnerships skate by on their complexity and branding, but they undermine a future where housing is a right.