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Eviction
Tenant organizers and legal services groups are working vigorously to get ahead of eviction cases as housing court processes restart.
Shelterforce Magazine
Many Americans won't be able to pay the rent in July. Black people are more likely to rent and will bear the brunt of a wave of evictions.
Politico
A new UCLA report predicts a grim future for renters in Los Angeles. The report, the first issue published in a new journal dedicated to housing and the coronavirus, spells out what government officials must do to offset and prevent further damage.
UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
A bill announced by Rep. Ilhan Omar would release tenants and homeowners from housing payments until the national emergency is lifted, and would make up the losses to landlords and lenders through a federal fund.
Shelterforce Magazine
Eviction moratoriums are only as good as their enforcement, as one man’s harrowing story in New Orleans shows.
Shelterforce Magazine
An expanded housing voucher program is needed to address the medium- and long-term economic consequences of COVID-19.
Shelterforce Magazine
The pandemic is highlighting the crucial necessity of community developers’ work. Here’s what the field will need to play its part in the recovery.
Shelterforce Magazine
Next City's Jared Brey reviews a year of developments in housing politics and policy, teasing out several big trends.
Next City
Upzoning without addressing speculation and finance could exacerbate the housing crisis for the nation’s most vulnerable communities, a professor of urban planning warns.
The Planning Report
Even as the city pursues new affordable housing, lax enforcement of rental regulations is leading to rising costs and evictions.
Crain's New York Business
Cities and states around the country are reconsidering decades-old bans on rent control.
Governing
More than half of American tenants are rent-burdened, putting them at risk of displacement. A national collaboration with PolicyLink hopes to help.
Curbed
A lawsuit, allowed to proceed by a Wayne County judge, reveals some of the difficulties of blight removal.
Detroit Free Press
Callus city builders in Africa must account for the poor as well as the rich argues Mathias Agbo Jr. in a piece for Common Edge.
Common Edge
Rising rents and low income residents have made this South Side neighborhood a locus for evictions and forced moves.
Chicago Reader
Housing experts have been reading and passing around "Evicted," by Matthew Desmond, since its release last year. Now the book has won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
Slate
A motion in City Council would open the door to new protections for gentrifying areas.
Atlanta Daily World
A survey of renters' housing history in Milwaukee could completely change what we know about eviction in the United States.
FiveThirtyEight
A Harvard sociologist and author of "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" supports a large expansion of housing vouchers to rebalance the scales of the housing market.
The New York Times
Amsterdam has sent its first family to go live in a ghetto on the east side of the city, now commonly known as "scum village."
Future Cities
