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Evictions

Homeless camps sit along the I-35 frontage road in Austin, Texas, on February 17, 2021.
Interview
Environment & Health

Mutual Aid Means Survival in Texas as Winter Storm Collides With Housing Crisis

A tenants’ union in Dallas was fighting evictions to keep people in their homes. Then the deadly winter storm hit.
by
Mike Ludwig,
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February 24, 2021
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Tenants display a banner reading "HERE TO STAY" during a protest
News
Human Rights

As an Eviction Crisis Looms, Tenant Organizing Explodes Across the Country

Tenants are organizing to hold widescale coordinated direct actions like rent strikes to avert the looming crisis.
by
Laura Jedeed &
Shane Burley,
Truthout
January 25, 2021
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Boston tenants, faith leaders, and small landlords rallied and marched, calling for a stronger, longer federal eviction ban as part of a National Day of Action to Prevent Evictions in Boston on January 13, 2021.
News
Economy & Labor

Biden Has Extended Eviction Moratorium — Now It’s Time for More

The existing eviction moratorium failed to uniformly keep landlords from pushing low-income families out of their homes.
by
Mike Ludwig,
Truthout
January 22, 2021
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Advocates for the homeless and front line healthcare workers stage a socially distanced protest aimed at speeding up what they say is the city's slow approach to managing COVID-19 in shelters. in Toronto. April 15, 2020.
News Analysis
Human Rights

Homeless Encampment Evictions Highlight the Cruelty of Capitalism Amid COVID

Homeless people are in an impossible position: They’re deprived of housing but barred from sleeping in public space.
by
Azeezah Kanji,
Truthout
January 15, 2021
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Sonia Alvarez-Zayas, center, is comforted by nephew Alexis Alvarez, 23, while daughter Izzy Ochoa, far left, asks Trojan Capital Investment to not evict them from their house at a press conference held on December 23, 2020, in Inglewood, California.
Op-Ed
Economy & Labor

The COVID-19 Pandemic Shows the Dangers of For-Profit Housing

Rents may have decreased for some in major cities, but the massive eviction crisis shows the true nature of the market.
by
Jacob Woocher,
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January 8, 2021
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Signs are seen during a protest to cancel rent and avoid evictions in front of the court house amid Coronavirus pandemic on August 21, 2020, in Los Angeles, California.
News
Human Rights

Housing Justice Advocates Call on CDC to Extend Federal Eviction Moratorium

The federal eviction moratorium is set to expire at year’s end amid a surging pandemic and plunging temperatures.
by
Kenny Stancil,
Common Dreams
December 26, 2020
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Ronel Remy, an organizer with City Life / Vida Urbana, speaks during a "Rally to Stop Evictions and Foreclosures" at the Brewer Fountain in Boston on October 11, 2020.
News
Human Rights

Activists Are Mobilizing to Create an Eviction-Free United States

Tenants are mobilizing to cancel rent, stop evictions and demand construction and maintenance of affordable housing.
by
Eleanor J. Bader,
Truthout
December 20, 2020
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Tents belonging to homeless veterans stand at the VA West Los Angeles Healthcare Campus Japanese Garden on September 24, 2020, in Los Angeles, California.
Op-Ed
Economy & Labor

Nearly 1,000 Homeless People Died in LA in 2020 as 93,000 Homes Sit Vacant

Vacant homes and mass homelessness show that the market is the problem, not the solution, to the housing crisis.
by
Alex Ferrer,
Terra Graziani &
Jacob Woocher,
Truthout
October 23, 2020
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Both the White House and Senate Republicans are using the levers available to them to blunt any economic recovery during a Joe Biden administration.
News Analysis
Politics & Elections

GOP Is Focused on Sabotaging a Potential Biden Administration Amid a Pandemic

Millions will face economic ruin on January 1 as protections for renters and student borrowers expire on December 31.
by
Alexis Goldstein,
Truthout
October 16, 2020
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Philadelphia Agrees to Grant 50 Vacant Homes to Community Land Trust
Interview
Human Rights

Philadelphia Agrees to Grant 50 Vacant Homes to Community Land Trust

The historic victory for unhoused people presents a model for tenant organizing and housing activism.
by
Amy Goodman,
Democracy Now!
September 29, 2020
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