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Affordable Housing
June 23, 2021
Rebecca Burns
Like Airbnb, but for Flophouses
A Georgia start-up aims to become the Airbnb for temporary shared housing. It calls it a solution to the housing crisis. Former tenants tell a different story.
April 2, 2021
Tracy Rosenthal
The Enduring Fiction of Affordable Housing
These public-private partnerships skate by on their complexity and branding, but they undermine a future where housing is a right.
April 1, 2021
Marie Solis
The Eternal Quest for the Unicorn Apartment
Why we gawk at stories about rent-controlled apartments, and how the basics—a secure, affordable roof over one’s head—became the stuff of fantasy
December 14, 2020
Morgan Baskin
HUD Deserves Better Than Marcia Fudge
The chronic neglect of the nation’s housing agency continues with Joe Biden’s decision to tap an inexperienced Ohio lawmaker as its leader.
August 31, 2020
Nick Martin
A Pandemic Winter Could Blow Up the Housing Crisis
Looking ahead to a new wave of evictions, flu season, dropping temperatures, and a pandemic with no end in sight.
July 13, 2020
Nick Martin
Don’t Give Dan Snyder a Stadium
Racist NFL team name or not, Washington, D.C., deserves better than the same old stadium grift.
March 30, 2020
Daniel Boguslaw
Rent Strike Nation
Interest in tenant activism has surged in the face of the coronavirus. Organizers are trying to seize the moment and build a movement.
September 19, 2017
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Rachel Monroe
Gone Baby Gone
In the wake of the housing crisis, a new breed of real estate investor is destroying America's cities.
April 7, 2016
Max Rivlin-Nadler
The Affordability Con
By and large, affordable private goods have replaced public ones. That's not a good thing.
November 13, 2015
Sasha Belenky
Could you live in this 302-square-foot apartment?
October 12, 2015
Arielle Milkman
The Housing Crisis Amid Denver’s Cannabis Boom
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