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Tag: housing instability

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Posted inClimate & Environment

LA emergency storm response system doesn’t do enough to consider unhoused residents

Lisa Kwon by Lisa Kwon September 6th, 2023September 6th, 2023

Organizers say the current system for emergencies operates too slowly to support unhoused Angelenos

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Posted inPolitics & Democracy

Disabled people of color continue to fight for accessible housing

by Bianca Gonzalez July 26th, 2023July 27th, 2023
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Posted inRace

Artists across the country grapple with an unforgiving housing market

by Alexandra Martinez July 7th, 2023July 6th, 2023
Posted inEconomy & Workers' Rights

New York City landlords benefit when renters don’t know their rights

by Jenika McCrayer June 20th, 2023June 22nd, 2023
digital collage with a yellow background. on the bottom left, three people holding "No Evictions" signs stand on the right side, a black-and-white cutout of a photograph of a Latinx man looks directly at the camera. diagonally down from the top left corner is a dotted black line with "renters' debt" curving along the loop
Posted inEconomy & Workers' Rights

Tenants unions harness collective action to fight rent debt

by Leonardo Vilchis-Zarate May 18th, 2023May 18th, 2023
color photograph of an outdoor protest. people in masks hold up cardboard signs reading "solidarity with our unhoused neighbors" and "protest our unhoused neighbors"
Posted inPolitics & Democracy

Oakland’s ‘Cob on Wood’ still at risk of further evictions

by Alexandra Martinez January 31st, 2023January 31st, 2023
Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

NYC policy to hospitalize houseless people criminalizes poverty

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Posted inEconomy & Workers' Rights

After Art Basel, Miami artists are left with a housing crisis and little power

by Alexandra Martinez December 6th, 2022April 19th, 2023
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Posted inEconomy & Workers' Rights

What will it take to meet the challenge of houselessness in Los Angeles?

by Frances Nguyen October 26th, 2022May 8th, 2023
Posted inEconomy & Workers' Rights

California Department of Transportation evicts part of the largest encampment in Oakland 

by Alexandra Martinez October 12th, 2022May 9th, 2023

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