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.
How the United States Chose to Become a Country of Homelessness
Co-published with The Nation. For months, our leaders have known that the Covid-19 crisis could force millions of people from their homes. They decided to let it …
New York Tenants Are Organizing Against Evictions as They Did in the Great Depression
Co-published with Retro Report and THE CITY. Anticipating a massive wave of evictions when the federal and state bans are lifted in January, …
New ‘Hotel of Healing’ Planned for Homeless in Escondido, California
Co-published with KPBS. With our support, KPBS North County reporter Tania Thorne takes us to a motel in Escondido, California, that will soon be a place of …
As the Nation Braces for a Wave of Evictions, Some Bronx Tenants Fight Back
Co-published with Slate. When COVID struck, a group of tenants in the South Bronx went on rent strike. Will it work?
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 …
No Standing, No Stopping, No Parking
Co-published with Believer Magazine. If you’re considering van-dwelling in the city, here are some of the rules I adopted over the years to make it work.
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.
A family starts anew amid COVID-19
Co-published with High Country News. In Mountain View, California, an RV-dwelling family waits out COVID-19 in a city-sanctioned ‘safe lot.’