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The National Fight for Rent Control

Oksana Mironova Protean
Rent control is back from the dead with a vengeance, with serious organizing campaigns underway in at least 15 states.

A Prescription for Housing?

Rachel M. Cohen Vox
States prepare to use Medicaid for rental assistance for the first time. With rents growing to their most unaffordable levels ever, some states are preparing to use federal Medicaid dollars in the hopes that health will improve as housing stabilizes.

It’s Going To Be a Long Winter for Immigrants in Tents

Luis Feliz Leon Curbed
Recent immigrants are housed in tents at Floyd Bennett Field in New York City. “The tents are not safe for children in any weather, and families should never have been placed at this site,” said a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society.

Human Rights and Housing

Peter Eglin Socialist Project: The Bullet
Housing is increasingly treated as both a speculative or an investment commodity for the rich and satisfied, and a charitable donation for the poor and precarious, in a system of corporate capitalist rule obfuscated by the language of human rights.
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