A Place to Call Home
Tenant organizers demand that housing be more than just a bare roof over your head, and in doing so they make space for a full life.
Spring 2025
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Tenants on the March: An Interview With Cea Weaver
“Organizing tenants has the potential to shape the political landscape for decades to come.”
Supply and the Housing Crisis: A Debate
How do we achieve housing for all?
The Battle Over Los Angeles’s Mansion Tax
The Measure ULA campaign shows how a housing-labor coalition can transform the political landscape, even in the face of staunch special interest reaction.
The Public We Need
It is hard to call people into a political project that is deeply incompatible with their sense of what it means to act morally in the world.
To Hell With Poverty
In his new book, Matthew Desmond argues that abolishing poverty will require an ambitious moral undertaking.
Homeless in Midtown: The View from Mainchance
The face of homelessness in New York City is changing, but the underlying problem remains the same: the failure to build affordable housing.
The Age of Housing Austerity
A raft of laws at the state level has given tenants new tools to fight eviction. But when it comes to the broader housing crisis, most elected leaders have done little more than kick the can down the road.
Who Segregated America?
Federal housing policies contributed to the segregation of American cities in the twentieth century. But it was private interests that led the way.
Redlining, Race, and the Color of Money
Redlining maps document the deep history of institutional racism in the United States. They also reveal how the federal government managed risk for capital—a role that has perpetuated inequality long after the end of explicit discrimination in the housing market.
Reclaim Our Homes
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing politicians to act in ways that just weeks ago seemed unthinkable. And activists like the Reclaimers are opening the cracks still wider.
Redlined by Algorithm
A new rule proposed by Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development could allow landlords and real-estate brokers to get away with discrimination by blaming it on computer modeling.
The New Housing Politics
Three new articles on the movements and ideas behind the fight for housing justice.
The Faces of Eviction
Sociologist Matthew Desmond discusses the scope of the eviction epidemic—and how ordinary people are fighting back.
Taking Back the Suburbs
America’s suburbs are no longer the white-picket enclaves of the popular imagination, thanks in large part to the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Yet the pathbreaking law remains far from delivering on its original promise. Can creative new litigation change that?
