housing affordability

6 posts

Chicago renters with Housing Choice Vouchers face discrimination and delayed assistance

Landlords face few consequences for denying housing to renters in the program colloquially known as Section 8, and the agency tasked with investigating complaints is under-resourced

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11 Min
By: Tatiana Walk-Morris

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

Ballot measure seeks to end discrimination based on source of rental income in Lincoln, Nebraska

Advocates behind the measure on the city’s May 6 special election ballot say it’s common for landlords to discriminate against Section 8 housing voucher users

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4 Min
By: Eddie Velazquez

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

Brooklyn tenant association wins $250,000 in waived rent in major victory

A judge sided with the tenants at 1616 President St., who held a rent strike for four years to demand significant and necessary repairs from their landlord

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4 Min
By: Eddie Velazquez

A farm in rural North Carolina provides a refuge and radical new possibilities for formerly incarcerated women 

Alamance County’s Benevolence Farm provides housing, job skills, and community connections to women leaving prison

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8 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

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