Half a Trillion Reasons for Shame
A report released on December 27 from hud.gov dropped an extremely startling new statistic. In the last year the number of homeless individuals in America shot up an astounding 18%, bringing the number of...
A report released on December 27 from hud.gov dropped an extremely startling new statistic. In the last year the number of homeless individuals in America shot up an astounding 18%, bringing the number of...
Raven Baxter will be the face of a national campaign to prevent housing discrimination, supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Dr. Raven Baxter, who was astonished earlier...
Each year, a slew of annual surveys are released declaring that select neighborhoods are the healthiest and fittest in the country. The criteria for these varies by publication and brand, but plenty of people...
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is George Lipsitz . Lipsitz is Research Professor Emeritus of Black Studies and Sociology at the...
“The simple fact is that the housing crisis lies squarely at the feet of the malevolence of developers just like Donald Trump himself.” During the first and only vice presidential debate of this election...
When once-perennial candidate Jimmy McMillan III first ran for elected office in 1993, he campaigned with one consistent message: The Rent is Too Damn High. His efforts garnered little support. Nonetheless, the phrase stuck...
On a spring afternoon, Pamela Saucer-Richardson stood in a grassy vacant lot on Erie Street, a block from Franklin Park in Dorchester, and remembered when her father owned the property more than 30 years...
Encampment sweeps in unhoused communities result in thousands of unnecessary deaths every year, a former City of San Antonio outreach worker writes. Niketta Burges June 7, 2024 Read the full article here Texas Observer
People want to continue living in the home where they are comfortable. Mike Ervin June 4, 2024 Read the full article here The Progressive
By Patrick Lakamp*
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This rental home at 952 Northampton St. in Buffalo is one of three that will be put into a receivership after its owner abandoned the properties over a year ago. This house and the other houses at 78 Deshler St. and 610 Adams St. are part of a court case in which the property owner was sued by the state Attorney General’s Office for lead paint violations at over 60 homes.