October 2023

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Homeless in Portland

Camping bans are cruel and inhumane Commentary by Kaia Sand Imagine you have to carry everything you own — bedding, the food you’ve secured for the time being, your clothes. You’ve lost so much, but…




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Fighting Criminalization with Housing First

By Brian Nam-Sonenstein Housing is one of our best tools for ending mass incarceration. It does more than put a roof over people’s heads; housing gives people the space and stability necessary to receive care,…


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It’s Not That Hard to Solve Homelessness

By Sonali Kolhatkar California is home to Hollywood and Disneyland, sun and sand, and… nearly one-third of all unhoused people in the entire nation. Compare this to the fact that 12 percent of the nation…




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One Building at a Time Won’t Do

Tenant Organizing in a Red State by Alex Prolman, Emerson Goldstein, and Kristen Hefner At the peak of the pandemic housing crisis in Summer 2020, community organizers across the country started building tenant unions to…


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Rent Stabilization Victory in Maryland

Landmark bill shows how communities can fight the housing crisis By Mel Buer On July 18, the Montgomery County Council passed a landmark rent stabilization bill, intending to curb predatory landlord practices in the county….


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Tenants Push for Federal Rent Control

Leading economists agree: “People are suffering.” By Jake Johnson More than 30 U.S. economists have signed a letter expressing support for strong federal tenant protections and rent control as housing costs remain sky-high, even amid…