‘It Kept Adding Up’: How Add-On Utility Fees Can Lead to Eviction for Tenants
Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. Tenants can be evicted for not paying utilities even if they have paid rent – tenants and their allies are fighting back.
How Santa Fe’s Housing Squeeze Nearly Left Me Homeless
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation. Thanks to poor administrative decisions at a local housing complex for artists, the city’s poet laureate fell into nerve-wracking precarity.
A Prospect Heights Ghost Story
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Hyperallergic. Part of a series on New York City housing, this final installment — a comic — focuses on its creator who was displaced from his Brooklyn brownstone.
The Eviction Experts
Co-published with Harper's Magazine. Can a city stop a housing crisis?
How an Oil Boom in North Dakota Led to a Boom in Evictions
Co-published with Grist. New study links surge of oil workers to long-term residents losing their homes.
Evicted, Homeless, And Working Full-Time
Co-published with Defector. As a full-time worker, as well as a single mom responsible for three children, Nieshea Walker still can’t afford the average market-rate rental apartment in Cincinnati.
The Revolution Against Shady Landlords Has Begun
Co-published with The Nation. In New York, the real estate industry and the politicians in its pocket both reign supreme. These tenants have a plan to change that forever.
I’ve Lived in New York for 13 Years and Earn $64,000. Why Am I Being Evicted Now?
Co-published with The Guardian. An aspiration of the American middle class used to be owning a home. Now, even renting an apartment feels impossible
Clean Slates
Co-published with Salt Lake City Weekly. How to get an eviction off your record in Utah.
What the End of Rent Relief Means for Virginia Tenants
Co-published with the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism. Eviction cases across the state have nearly doubled as protections and aid run out.
After the Eviction Moratorium
Co-published with The New Republic. Around the nation, eviction filings are climbing. In numerous cities, cases now exceed 100 percent of the historical average.
Utah helped landlords, not renters. How that’s changing.
Co-published with The Salt Lake Tribune. New guidance from the Department of the Treasury clarifies funding is meant to ‘achieve housing stability.’
