evictions

"No There There": Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Future of the Left

"I’m sitting in the car, barreling down the highway, asking myself, 'What happened in my life that has put me in this position where I have to like listen to this &%$*@ nonsense?' I needed to leave. But like most people, I needed the health insurance."

SCOTUS Ended the Eviction Ban, but not the Fight Against Eviction

by Maia Silber

Philadelphia's housing crisis during the first world war shows that worker and citizen activism is essential to compel governments to act to secure adequate affordable housing. 

The Depression-Era Lessons That Can Solve Today’s Evictions Crisis

by Anya Jabour

Social workers and researchers Edith Abbott and Sophonisba Breckinridge conducted an important study of evictions in Chicago during the Great Depression and advocated for federal support for a minimum standard of living including housing. The looming eviction crisis demands similar big thinking.