Will Cuts in Rural Programs Leave the Same Lasting Wounds as the 2008 Financial Crisis?
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Barn Raiser. Rural families like mine are still grappling with the long-term mental health consequences of housing loss.
Advantage: Landlords
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Baffler. In NYC eviction courts, many tenants are deprived of lawyers despite the city’s right-to-counsel policies.
‘We’re still living with the aftermath’: Floridians brace for fresh hurricane season
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian. With less than a month before the start of the 2025 hurricane season, residents are still recovering from catastrophic damage from the past two years
Working Essays: Our Series on Surviving in America
From the dangerously breakneck pace of fast food restaurants to self-storage units as symbols of hope in a housing crisis, read our collection of recent first-person stories examining working class realities during late-stage capitalism.
LA Should Requisition Empty Housing for Fire Victims
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Jacobin. Luxury housing sits empty all over Los Angeles while average city residents displaced by the recent fires are struggling to find new homes in an incredibly tight housing market. There’s an
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.
EHRP Contributor Mark Robinson Nominated for Local Emmy
EHRP is thrilled to announce that our contributor Mark Robinson has been nominated for a local Emmy for his two-part feature, co-published with Keyris Manzanares in Virginia Public Media, covering the mobile home residents who are pushing back against the
The Crisis of Shelter in the United States
Co-published with The Nation. Housing is one the building blocks of human life. Why is it so scarce in this country?
Real Estate and Food Reporting Is a Missed Opportunity
Co-published with Columbia Journalism Review. We can cover the joyous and quotidian stuff of life, telling stories that truly engage, while at the same time recognizing pleasure’s underbelly.
