The Case Against Homeownership
Instead of perpetuating the Ponzi scheme of private property for some, we should be demanding economic security for all. Jane Chung, June 5, 2023 Read the full article here The Nation
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Thousands are living in RVs on Los Angeles’ streets. Leaders want to shrink the number, but the solution is elusive
Early one recent Friday morning, sanitation workers, homeless-outreach workers and LAPD officers arrived on a little street in the west of Los Angeles. Jasmine Avenue is lined with low-rise apartment blocks, an imposing Catholic...
Blizzard report criticizes City of Buffalo for communication failures
Better public communication is Buffalo’s most urgent issue when it comes to being more prepared for future extreme weather, but the city also has work to do on upgrading its infrastructure and utilities and...
Store owner charged with killing a teen shot at people he suspected of shoplifting before
A store owner in South Carolina charged with murder this week after shooting a teen he wrongly thought stole water has shot at suspected shoplifters two other times in the past eight years and not faced...
How Racism and a Viral Mob Destroyed a California Restaurant
“It quickly got to the point where there was almost no return,” Brooke Leigh Howard June 1, 2023 Read the full article here Daily Beast
House Republican calls low-income housing ‘a more dangerous program than food stamps’
Right-wing Republican members of the United States House of Representatives have drummed up an extensive list of excuses about why they oppose the deal struck by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) and President Joe Biden...
Saving Chinatown
Philadelphia’s vibrant enclave now faces threats that have nearly eliminated Chinatowns in other cities. Sudip Bhattacharya May 30, 2023 Read the full article here The Progressive
Former slaves honouring Black soldiers: Civil rights lawyer issues reminder of Memorial Day origins
Like the horrors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the first recorded Memorial Day celebration has been obscured in the American story Clara Hill May 31, 2021 Read the full article here The Independent
Lessons From a Renters’ Utopia
It might look like Vienna Evelyn Blackwell May 22, 2023 Read the full article here World News ERA
US cities to pay record $80m to people injured in 2020 racial justice protests
‘I have never seen a wave of settlements for police brutality like this in American history,’ said Justin Hansford, a professor at Howard University School of Law. Gloria Oladipo May 25, 2023 Read the full...