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The Eviction Crisis Is Aiding the GOP’s Voter Suppression Schemes
Struggles with eviction can translate into disenfranchisement at the ballot box.
Activists Across the Country Are Making the Right to Housing a Reality
Activists are notching wins against landlords and banks profiting off of what should be a human right.
4 Companies Filed Nearly 15,000 Eviction Actions in COVID’s First 16 Months
A new report shows how corporate landlords engaged in harassment and abusive deception of their tenants.
Amid Eviction Crisis, Organizers Win Right to Legal Representation for Tenants
A right to counsel in eviction cases exerts an outsize impact as an intervention in housing injustice.
Facing Eviction? Here’s How We Turn Rent Debts Into Leverage for Change.
Let’s build collective tenant power to target the corporate landlords who see housing only as a profit-generating asset.
Evictions Are Climbing to Pre-Pandemic Levels in Cities Across the US
Data suggest more than a third of households nationwide worry about facing eviction in the next two months.
Hundreds of Thousands of Children Are Homeless — and the Problem Is on the Rise
With the end of the federal eviction moratorium, experts fear child homelessness is even higher than the data suggests.
Rural America Is Facing an Invisible Eviction Crisis
In places where rental assistance has been slow to be delivered, eviction cases are piling up. No one’s tracking it.
With Only 23 Percent of Rental Aid Distributed, Warren and Bush Demand Answers
Less than a quarter of the $46.5 billion has been distributed since Congress authorized the funds last December.
83 Percent of Rental Assistance Still Undisbursed as Millions May Face Eviction
The assistance is more vital now that the federal eviction moratorium has been shot down.