| Jul 17, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s hard enough not having a safe place to live. Now it’s easier for cities to arrest you for it. “I am afraid at all times,” testified Debra Blake, who’d been forced to live outside in Grants Pass, Oregon for eight years after losing her job and housing. Her...
| Apr 17, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf there’s one thing I could tell lawmakers, it would be to bring back the expanded, monthly, fully refundable Child Tax Credit. Those monthly payments of up to $300 per child cut child poverty nearly in half in just a few months. And when the credit expired in late...
| Apr 10, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs the cost of housing has exploded, so has the number of people experiencing homelessness. And unfortunately, instead of trying to house people, more states and cities are criminalizing people simply for lacking a safe place to sleep. According to the National...
| Feb 21, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Featured“How we gonna pay last year’s rent?” the chorus implores in the song “Rent” from Jonathan Larson’s 1996 musical of the same name. It’s the same refrain for many Americans today. A new Harvard study found that half of U.S. renter households now spend more than 30...
| Jul 19, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn the wealthiest country on the planet, too many people still lack access to housing. The pandemic revealed the full extent of the U.S. housing crisis. Where were the roughly 580,000 people living unhoused in 2020 to go under “stay at home” orders? And what about...
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