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.

Interest in tenant activism has surged in the face of the coronavirus. Organizers are trying to seize the moment and build a movement.

A new book explores whether rampant development can ease California’s housing shortage.

In Santa Cruz, an unauthorized graduate student strike threatens to spill into its second week, with no clear resolution in sight.

In response to a reformist chorus directing them to wait, Moms 4 Housing opted to address a housing crisis with immediate action—and won.

Low pay, soaring rents, and cities littered with e-scooters. Welcome to the future.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s book explains how government policy and the real estate industry worked against black homeowners.

Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans.

Global warming is causing mass migrations around the world. In New York, it's forcing people from their homes in quieter ways.

For decades, the city used strict zoning laws to target the poor and people of color. Today, liberal NIMBYs are fighting to preserve them.

Renters in New York City have some legal protections and an activist infrastructure. What about the rest of America?

The mayor of New York City was once a hero on the left. His inability to rouse interest in a run says a lot about him as a politician—as well as the current anxieties of the Democratic Party.

With the defeat of Proposition 10 in California, affordable housing advocates are looking toward the next fight.

In California and across the country, landlord groups are waging a disinformation campaign to squash efforts to make rent more affordable.