Landlords have one of their own in the state legislature. She and her allies are looking to stick it to renters.

The long-predicted nationwide wave of lockouts is finally cresting. A report from New York City housing court

As pandemic-era tenant protections end, cities are reconsidering rent control as a means to keeping people in their homes. St. Paul offers an example.

Everyone talks about universal pre-K and childcare, and they should. But the housing money in the bill—while still not nearly enough—would at least start to address a true crisis.

Dithering Democrats have left vulnerable renters in the worst possible place: at the mercy of the Supreme Court.

Activists and lawmakers rally against congressional inertia.

As Covid relief programs are set to expire this fall, millions of people are newly facing eviction and mounting debts. Why pretend the pandemic is over?

Mothers are being evicted far more frequently than other Americans. This is the hidden story of America's looming housing crisis.

The end of the year is a month away, and remaining relief programs are expiring. We are desperately unprepared for what waits on the other side.

Americans are increasingly frustrated by the obligation to ride out a global disaster on their own. They have every reason to be.

“What really worries me is what’s gonna happen next year. I may find more income sources; I may not.”

How a group of Manhattan liberals used the language of “community” to evict people living in temporary housing from their neighborhood.

Cancel the rent. Tax the rich. Health care for all. People tend to like simple policy that does what it says it will.

Leaving essentials like food and shelter to the whims of the market produces an extreme kind of disorganization.

Looking ahead to a new wave of evictions, flu season, dropping temperatures, and a pandemic with no end in sight.

Democratic leaders are treating billionaires delicately in the hopes that they’ll relinquish their riches on their own. Bernie Sanders has a better idea.

The mass expansion of public goods is long past due, so pay people to stay home, give them free health care, and stop charging tuition.

The 2008 financial crash offered some stark lessons about evictions and foreclosures, but lawmakers didn’t learn a thing.

As families face food insecurity and homelessness, lobbyists, massive corporations, and the American war machine are living large.

Supermarkets are ending their “hero pay” bonuses, emergency spending provisions are drying up, and eviction moratoriums are about to expire.