Calling for rent cancellation, housing activists are preparing to face off with cops evicting Black and Brown renters.
Housing
The patchwork of legal protections for renters that emerged at the start of the pandemic is unlikely to stem the crisis.
Decades of growing inequality, coupled with a pandemic, have left millions of tenants no choice but to rent strike.
Residents of housing complexes owned by Trump’s son-in-law struggled with aggressive evictions long before the pandemic.
A new study estimates that about 250,000 people could be left homeless as a result of layoffs in the wake of COVID-19.
The Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act would not just freeze rent payments but also forgive them entirely.
As rents soar in Oregon, democratic socialist candidates are gaining traction with progressive housing agendas.
Demanding housing during this crisis involves taking on the capitalist state.
Homelessness was at crisis levels in the U.S. COVID-19 has put this already vulnerable population even more at risk.
In the South, increased inland flooding is exacerbating inequality.