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D.C. Residents Are Fighting a Slumlord to Regain Control of Their Neighborhood
For the past four years, tenants in the five-building complex above the Congress Heights metro station have dealt with horrific conditions: cockroaches, rats, bedbugs, persistent flooding, roofs caving...
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A New Bill in Congress Would Make Mobile Home Loans Even More Predatory
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would allow employees at manufactured home retailers—who sell houses often called “mobile homes” or “trailers”—to steer customers towards...
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Why Have Banks Stopped Lending to Low-Income Americans?
At the end of September, the Federal Reserve released its annual collection of data gathered under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. Among other findings, the report details that the country’s three...
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A Billionaire’s Bid to Bring Amazon to Detroit
When Amazon solicited bids this fall for the location of its new 50,000-employee headquarters, 238 North American cities tossed their hats in the ring. They’re competing with one another to put...
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The Wind Chill is 46 Below and Our Roof Is Full of Holes
We need a new roof but we need a new car more. We live in a cabin in Trescott, Maine. Our nearest neighbors are a half-mile down the road in one direction and about two miles in the other, with woods...
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What Ben Carson Doesn’t Get About Poverty
“The prescription for the cure rests with the accurate diagnosis of the disease.” Apply Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words to Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson’s latest plan and...
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I’m a Programmer in a Tech Mecca. I Still Have to Deliver Food to Make Rent.
10:45 a.m. I wake up—I think I must have missed my alarm, or snoozed it too many times. I grab my phone to check the time. It’s late. I snap out of bed in a rush and curse myself for sleeping in. I...
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Ben Carson Wants HUD to Stop Fighting Housing Segregation
Today, a child born to a low-income family and raised in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans will have beaten the odds if they live past age 67. They can also expect to make just $20,000 a year by...
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San Francisco’s Prop C Would Make Tech Companies Address the Homelessness...
National media coverage of San Francisco’s Proposition C — which would raise taxes on the city’s largest businesses in order to increase funding to address the city’s homelessness crisis — is largely...
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California Already Has a Housing Crisis. The Fires Just Made It Worse.
California is on fire. Again. The state’s 2018 wildfire season has been devastating, and it’s not over yet. The dramatic Woolsey and Hill fires scorching the hills around Los Angeles are still being...
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30 Million Homes Are Unsafe to Live In. This Arizona Organization Has a Model...
When technician Dustin Shaber arrived at a small home on the east side of Tucson, he was prepared to measure a broken glass door and order a replacement. The homeowner had called in the request to...
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D.C.’s High Housing Costs Pushed Me In and Out of Homelessness for 30 Years
Everyone always forgets about apartment building laundry rooms. That’s where I used to go when the temperature dipped below freezing — the doors are unlocked and they’re usually in the basement, far...
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A Record-Breaking Tornado Season Is Pummeling Mobile Home Residents
“Our home is a 28×80 four-bedroom, two-bath that we got used three years ago. It was in like-new condition for a 15-year-old home,” said David Kelley, who lives in Beauregard, a town in Lee County,...
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Calling 911 or Not Mowing the Lawn Can Cost Disabled People Their Homes
Richard McGary lost his home because he wasn’t able to clean his yard. When McGary lived in Portland, Oregon, a city inspector decided he had too much debris in his yard and cited his home as a...
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My Neighborhood Shows How the ‘Opportunity Zone’ Tax Program Just Helps the Rich
My walk to the Metro each day takes me past a construction site, where there are currently four large cranes looming overhead. Walking along Rhode Island Ave. in the morning means having several large...
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Don’t Count on Big Tech to Fix the Bay Area’s Housing Crisis
Recently, Apple joined Facebook, Google, and a number of other tech companies pledging to make investments in increasing housing affordability in the Bay Area. Tech giant Amazon is also funding...
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San Francisco Tows Cars Over Unpaid Tickets, Even When People Are Living in Them
No one likes paying for a parking ticket. But for 32-year-old MiQueesha Willis, not being able to pay for those parking tickets meant losing the only home she shared with her two-year-old son, Tobias....
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COVID-19 Proves San Francisco’s Housing Crisis Is A Health Emergency
Ako Jacintho remembers when people weren’t living in tents on the streets of San Francisco. Or if there were tents, there weren’t encampments. This was back in the late ‘90s, right at the base of the...
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Landlords are Using an Old Financing Trick to Get Around Eviction Freezes
When coronavirus started sweeping the country this March, Francine Simpson lost three jobs. The 26-year-old was apprenticing in a Los Angeles-area tattoo shop, while babysitting and working as a waiter...
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As Eviction Bans Expire, Renters Turn to Credit Cards
Just off the major traffic artery of 16th Street NW in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where gentrification has forced out generations of Latinx and Black renters, an eight-story...
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