Housing

A federal housing program intended to shore up its own finances while helping homeowners on the brink of foreclosure has instead helped create “Wall Street landlords.”

Former bank regulator Bill Black says Attorney General Eric Holder must stop targeting minorities and instead focus on the mortgage fraud of banksters.

Aborted foreclosures leave thousands of properties in legal limbo.

Is Americans' inability to acquire a home of their own in a neighborhood that feels safe a personal or a political problem?

The city of Portland recently announced it is seeking to provide tiny houses to convince people currently residing in Portland's “tent cities” to relocate to the permanent structures.

Despite rosy reports in the media about the end of the national foreclosure crisis and the recession that followed, all is not well in our inner cities and suburbs …

Undocumented women face challenges with employment, health care, high rates of domestic violence and psychological trauma.

Whether the long-term unemployed in the global North or the long-term displaced in the global South, people are being expelled from economy, society and nation in increasing numbers.

Six months after the widely hailed mayoral election of the liberal Bill de Blasio, Danny Katch looks at what has changed - and not changed - from Michael Bloomberg's …

Cheaply constructed buildings of the past were much more likely to have collapsed or for that matter have been torn down than the quality structures, so what we see …