Samuel Stein Musical Chairs Why did New York City’s rents skyrocket in the aftermath of the pandemic? March 26, 2024
Caroline Tracey Checkpoint Dreams An unrealized proposal for a Border Patrol installation in Arizona reveals the tension between restricting immigration and freeing trade. March 23, 2024
Jonathan Mingle The Crash to Come Insurance companies have responded to climate disasters by raising premiums and dropping customers. Now there’s a new housing bubble waiting to burst. November 11, 2023
Piper French A Housing Crisis in Paradise Two residential developments in Marin County have, for different reasons, met with resistance from their communities. What can they tell us about the way out of California’s housing emergency? April 26, 2023
Alissa Quart Anti-Rent Wars, Then and Now Amid the 1840s economic crisis, landlords tried to drive out tenants in default. The remarkable movement that rose to challenge evictions can be a model for today’s housing activists. October 25, 2021
Francesca Mari The True Cost of Living “Gross inequity begets precarity and suffering, which begets fear, shame, and frustration.” May 29, 2021
Shirley Elizabeth Thompson On Race and Property in the South “There is just something about the robustness of Black cultural institutions and networks in the South that can’t be matched elsewhere.” November 28, 2020
Gabriel M. Schivone America’s Eviction Epidemic Across the country, millions of people are facing eviction as protections in place for the pandemic have lapsed. September 16, 2020
E. Tammy Kim Moms 4 Housing: A Dramatic Eviction Revisited Taken as a whole, the emails released by Alameda County reveal a struggle to coordinate a response to mass protest—in the context of an otherwise ordinary eviction. April 22, 2020
E. Tammy Kim Moms 4 Housing & the Right to a Home In Oakland, a coordinated, grassroots response to the housing emergency is revealing new potential for inspiring change. March 9, 2020