affordable housing

The corporate takeover of Detroit homes

June 29, 2021 By Andrew Wright

Out-of-state investors are buying up houses in large quantities in the metro Detroit area - 50 to 200 at a time.

Brookland Manor, D.C.’s largest affordable housing community, is under attack

August 18, 2020 By Sean Sullivan

MidCity Financial, the corporate real-estate firm that is the developer and owner of the property where Brookland Manor is located, has been pushing a redevelopment plan—and pushing residents out—since 2014.

“The Bronx is ready to fight” for affordable housing

October 4, 2016 By Cameron Orr

Bronx residents mobilized to resist a development plan that threatens to displace an entire neighborhood.

Coming up short on places to live

June 10, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn

What about the people who have to work 92 hours a week at minimum-wage jobs to rent a one-bedroom apt. in California? Shouldn't they have a decent place to live?

We need affordable housing, not condos and townhouses

April 20, 2016 By Lawrence H. Geller

As one activist said, "there is a time to write letters, a time to meet, and when all else fails, a time to take to the streets."