On working amid paranoid customers, hungry shoplifters, sick co-workers, and people who just need a bathroom

We need a country that doesn’t make debt accumulation the cost of entry into a decent life.

The chronic neglect of the nation’s housing agency continues with Joe Biden’s decision to tap an inexperienced Ohio lawmaker as its leader.

During a summer of uprising and mutual aid, Nadine Little moved from park underpasses to hotels and back again. She’s not alone.

To build community support, organizers in L.A. flipped the message—and tactic—from taking money away from cops to locking in funds for everything else. Will it work?

Everything is pretty terrible right now. A glut of pop psych advice wants you to think you can muscle your way out of it alone.

“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.

Kooper Caraway, the head of the state’s AFL-CIO, is done with thinking small.

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.

Protest encampments across the country are forcing questions about housing, public space, and who our neighborhoods are really for.

In the face of compounding crises, tenants and housing organizers see an opportunity to pry open the real estate industry’s grip on our cities.

The divide between who can afford to weather the downturn and who can’t is sharpening. And it’s shaping the recovery response.

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.

On Pittsburgh, the canonization of Mario Lemieux, and stories white progressives like to tell

Out of work and with little savings, millions of tenants are already part of a movement. They just don’t know it yet.

New York doesn’t have a density problem. It has an austerity problem.