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Housing
"We can't address the housing crisis by chopping the weed off at the top. We have to pull it out by the roots," said one panelist at the intimate event...
Jon Queally
We all know that Ireland’s demographic history is one of the most unusual and tragic in Europe. The collapse of the population from the early 19th century is unprecedented in...
David McWilliams
Concurring with arguments by several prominent constitutional and civil rights scholars, a federal judge has reversed himself and ruled that veterans can sue the Department of Veterans Affairs for housing they...
Doug Smith
The United States is the wealthiest country in the world. We spend billions of dollars on the military, trillions bailing out Wall Street, and similar numbers in tax breaks for...
The Sanders Institute
Video (above): The Sanders Institute Founder and Fellow, Dr. Jane Sanders, recently visited California to see the homelessness problem in Los Angeles firsthand. Jane walked Skid Row and the surrounding...
Origins of Public Housing in the United States Amidst widespread poverty and unemployment of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt embarked on a mission to integrate publicly built affordable...
A community land trust (CLT) is a dynamic model of affordable housing and community development that has taken many different forms over the years. What is typical of nearly every...
At The Sanders Institute Gathering, Senator Bernie Sanders, actor and activist Danny Glover, CEO of Champlain Housing Trust, Brenda Torpy and President & Founder of Healthy Housing Foundation, Michael Weinstein...
20.8 million households pay more than 30% of their income on rent, and 11 million pay more than 50% of their income on rent according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. 47.7%...
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