News | Environment & Health Trump-Appointed Judge Rules Against CDC’s Moratorium on Evictions Amid Pandemic Keeping people in their homes by preventing evictions is a key step in helping to stop the spread, says CDC director. By Jessica Corbett , CommonDreams May 6, 2021 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Texas Blackout Reveals Deep Impact of Environmental Racism, Aid Organizers Say Calls are growing for Texas to join national power grids — and for a broader reckoning on environmental justice. By Candice Bernd , Truthout February 22, 2021 Truthout
Op-Ed | Human Rights Cities Are Razing Homeless Encampments Despite Record Cold Weather and COVID Municipalities are flouting CDC advice and carrying out forcible evictions of the unhoused during a record-cold winter. By Tyler Walicek , Truthout February 20, 2021 Truthout
News | Economy & Labor Texas Teen Was Forced to Use College Savings to Prevent Mom’s Eviction Progressives say this common story exemplifies policy makers' failure to provide affordable housing and education. By Kenny Stancil , CommonDreams February 10, 2021 Truthout
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 Truthout
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 , Truthout January 8, 2021 Truthout
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 , CommonDreams December 26, 2020 Truthout
Op-Ed | Environment & Health As COVID Spikes, It’s Normal to Feel Helpless. Let’s Turn Fear to Activism. This will be a long, hard winter. Let’s also make it a busy one. By William Rivers Pitt , Truthout November 30, 2020 Truthout
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 Truthout
News | Environment & Health California Housing Policy Is Making Wildfires Worse Housing is the megafire-sized climate issue that lawmakers in California keep failing to adequately address. By Elizabeth Weil & Mollie Simon , ProPublica October 6, 2020 Truthout