affordable housing

17 posts

Li’l Abner Mobile Home residents run for local office as park faces eviction and displacement

As voters head to the polls Tuesday, a group of residents is running for Sweetwater city commissioner seats in Florida to uproot the elected officials whose oversight they say landed them in this precarious position

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7 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Military expansion on Guam sucks up housing resources as Indigenous residents struggle

About 5,000 Marines are expected to move onto the unincorporated U.S. territory in the coming years, which experts and advocates say is driving up the cost of housing

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4 Min
By: Phillip V. Cruz, Jr.

Miami Beach looks to shutter Bikini Hostel for providing lifeline to homeless residents

The Bikini Hostel began housing homeless people in November 2024, after about 50 people were relocated from the Camillus House shelter in Miami due to a contract dispute

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5 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

The path from eviction to unhoused is shorter than you think

In this first-person account, writer and journalist Jocelyn Figueroa details how eviction often leads to more than being unhoused.

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8 Min
By: Jocelyn Figueroa

In NYC, the fight for rent stabilization continues

Six years after the passage of landmark tenants’ rights legislation, landlords are getting creative—and tenants are getting organized

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13 Min
By: Dana Edwards

Worker safety activists secure major victory in Miami’s largest redevelopment deal

The developer of the $3 billion project committed to implementing stringent heat protections for construction workers, among other measures

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7 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

How the LA wildfires could exacerbate the region’s housing and homelessness crises

After the fires destroyed thousands of homes, displaced residents face rental price gouging and dire need for essential supplies

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3 Min
By: Jocelyn Figueroa

How a mobile home community in South Florida is organizing against a looming eviction

The tenants of Li’l Abner are suing their landlord over orders to leave their vibrant neighborhood to make way for a new development being presented as affordable housing

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8 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Florida encampment ban worsens Hurricane Milton’s impact on houseless population

Thousands of people are already emerging homeless in the wake of two hurricanes in the Southern U.S., according to FEMA

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4 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

New York affordable housing proposal showcases non-carceral solutions

This past December, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled plans for Seneca, a slate of new affordable housing units located at the site of the former Lincoln Correctional Facility in Harlem. The minimum-security men’s prison, located at West 110th Street across from Central Park, was shuttered in 2019

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6 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

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

The City of Oakland has yet to follow through on their promise to build alternative shelter for residents of Oakland’s largest houseless encampment

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4 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Resident-owned communities intersect housing and climate justice

Manufactured and affordable homes are disproportionately susceptible to climate change, but housing cooperatives give autonomy and power back to residents and improve their quality of life

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8 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

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