In a recent piece for EHRP/Barn Raiser, Michelle Polizzi reflects on the lasting psychological impact of her family’s housing insecurity during the 2008 recession and explores how current federal budget cuts will afflict rural communities for years

Our executive director writes about opportunities that 20th-century America’s more affordable cities offered her mother, an amateur artist, and others of her generation — opportunities that are no longer accessible to most of us.

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.

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project, The Margin, and The Nation. How climate change is escalating a housing crisis in Alaska’s Native villages.

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Oxford American. After decades of unchecked hazardous waste pollution, a Florida hamlet fights the developers eager to build homes there anyway.

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

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.

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.

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Vox. In a pilot to redesign LA County’s triage process, community members contend with harrowing tradeoffs to answer: Who deserves to be housed first?

Co-published with Slate. How inequality messes with teenagers’ minds.

Co-published with Grist. The city’s nearly 400,000 pipes wouldn’t have to be fully removed for nearly 30 years after the rest of the nation.

Co-published with Grist. Wildfires cause billions in home damage every year. Now, insurers no longer want to take on the risk.