Utah Lawmaker’s Firm Squeezes Thousands From Renters Months After Evictions
Co-published with the Utah Investigative Journalism Project and The Salt Lake Tribune. The practice appears to violate a new law setting deadlines for such damage claims.
Landlords Evict Hundreds of Utah Renters Each Month Despite Federal Ban
Co-published with the Utah Investigative Journalism Project and The Salt Lake Tribune. Landlords use loopholes, lack of enforcement to ignore eviction bans. Legal help …
Tenants Facing Eviction Over COVID-19 Look to a 1970s Solution
Co-published with Retro Report and The New York Times. With mass evictions on the horizon, a counterintuitive proposal to help renters buy …
I Lost Everything When My Mother Got Evicted
Co-published with CoveyClub. As the nation braces for a wave of evictions, here's what it's like when you can never go home again.
Tenants Just Won a Nationwide Eviction Ban. They’re Still Fighting to Cancel Rent.
Co-published with In These Times. The Trump administration's surprise eviction moratorium is a victory for tenants. But organizers say bolder measures must be taken.
Homeless in a Pandemic: The Housing Poetry of Jennifer Fitzgerald
Co-published with Literary Hub. Poet Jen Fitzgerald chronicles her struggle with housing insecurity in a series of stunning fact-based poems and personal images.
Landlords are Using an Old Financing Trick to Get Around Eviction Freezes
Co-published with TalkPoverty. Payment deferment agreements shouldn't apply during the eviction moratorium. Landlords are trying to use them anyway.
Landlords Illegally Evicting Tenants, Despite Federal Restrictions
Co-published with The American Prospect. The CARES Act is supposed to freeze evictions for tens of millions of renters. But nobody’s enforcing the law.
The Art of Eviction
Co-published with The Nation. How one company helps landlords exploit a loophole in New York’s tenant laws.
People’s History Podcast
Co-published with Jacobin. Coming November 19, A People’s History is a striking, new documentary podcast series from Jacobin and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
The Scarlet E, Episode 4: “Solutions”
Co-published with WNYC Studios. In this fourth and final episode of The Scarlet E, On the Media evaluates potential solutions to America’s crippling eviction epidemic.
The Scarlet E, Episode 3: “Landlords & Tenants”
Co-published with WNYC Studios. This is the dollars-and-cents episode of The Scarlet E, in which On the Media sets their sights on the practicalities and pitfalls …