• When missing rent leads to jail time

    When missing rent leads to jail time

    Oct 30, 2020 05:25 PM EDT

    ... turned them away with a copy of Wright’s decision. This didn’t sit well. Some landlords said they wouldn’t be able to offer affordable housing. Some said they’d find someone to run against Jegley in the next election. He told them to go for it, then ran ...

  • The pandemic will likely make America's eviction crisis even worse

    The pandemic will likely make America's eviction crisis even worse

    Sep 29, 2020 07:20 PM EDT

    ... eviction crisis — a shortage of affordable housing and a lack of living wages, Pattillo says. Not a single county in the country has enough rental housing for low-income residents. Most low-income renting families spend at least half of their income on housing and utilities, while nearly a quarter ...

  • How dual threats of heat and COVID-19 exacerbate threats to vulnerable communities

    How dual threats of heat and COVID-19 exacerbate threats to vulnerable communities

    Jul 30, 2020 11:08 PM EDT

    ... an individual's health -- are becoming even more apparent now. One way she thinks these deficits could be addressed is by putting more resources toward affordable housing, as well as telemedicine, in order to expand access for low-income patients. Sen said he hopes the confluence of heat waves and ...

  • WATCH: Biden says post-pandemic plan can fight racial economic inequality

    WATCH: Biden says post-pandemic plan can fight racial economic inequality

    Jul 28, 2020 08:25 PM EDT

    ... help low-and middle-income families cover down payments on their first homes. It also pledges to build 1.5 million new homes and public housing units in hopes of addressing the "affordable housing crisis" which has hit many of the nation's marquee cities and disproportionately hurt people of ...

  • AP FACT CHECK: If he's said it once, he's said it 100 times

    AP FACT CHECK: If he's said it once, he's said it 100 times

    Jul 11, 2020 04:10 PM EDT

    ... of that conversation, provided by the Biden campaign to The Associated Press, shows he again declined to support defunding police, Barkan raises the issue of police reform and asks whether Biden would funnel money into social services, mental health counseling and affordable housing to help reduce civilian interactions with police.

  • U.S. House approves $1.5 trillion plan to fix crumbling infrastructure

    U.S. House approves $1.5 trillion plan to fix crumbling infrastructure

    Jul 01, 2020 10:18 PM EDT

    ... that has traditionally held bipartisan appeal. Democrats hailed the House bill, which goes far beyond transportation to fund schools, health care facilities, public utilities and affordable housing. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and a sponsor of the legislation, called it a "transformational ...

  • Cities try to arrest their way out of homeless problems

    Cities try to arrest their way out of homeless problems

    Jun 29, 2020 06:47 PM EDT

    ... African Americans at the hands of police. As politicians consider reform, they must include reforms that divest dollars from police departments and invest them in affordable housing, said Marc Dones, a consultant who advises governments on ways to improve their homeless response systems with a focus on equity and anti ...

  • Stacey Abrams on ‘reformation and transformation’ in American policing

    Stacey Abrams on ‘reformation and transformation’ in American policing

    Jun 18, 2020 10:40 PM EDT

    ... that we are not simply investing in public safety, but we're building a safer public through education, through health care, through food security, through affordable housing, and that we not see these things as being in conflict, but they have to be part of a holistic vision of what ...

  • How members of Gen-Z are approaching this historic moment of change

    How members of Gen-Z are approaching this historic moment of change

    Jun 12, 2020 10:40 PM EDT

    ... right? We have imaginations. Let's use them. Does safety look like community-based security? Does safety look like mental health? Does it look like affordable housing? Does it look like the security guard that works at your school? We really need to just take that time to dream of ...

  • Seattle council members protest after tear gas used on crowd

    Seattle council members protest after tear gas used on crowd

    Jun 08, 2020 11:16 PM EDT

    Mosqueda, the Seattle council's budget chair, announced an inquest into the police budget to get a better understanding of how the department spends money. She said she wants to cut police funding by half and reinvest the money "in communities that we've failed," including in affordable housing and ...