Out of the Flames
A review of a documentary about the decade-long period in the South Bronx when 80 percent of its housing, home to around a quarter of a million people, was lost to fire.
Rent Control Is at a Turning Point
Advocates around the country now have current data on what rent control expansion would do to help low-income, cost-burdened renters.
The Fight for Stronger Rent Regulation in New York Is Beginning
New York’s rent regulation laws, which protect over 1 million renter households in New York City and Westchester, Nassau, and Rockland counties, are up for renewal this year.
Community Rights and Urban Land
The contemporary American understanding of community control over urban land is rooted in post-war organizing against government-driven redevelopment and bank-driven financial disinvestment. Broader movement groups, like the Chicago chapter of […]
Urban Art or Graffiti Vandalism?
Review of Stations of the Elevated, by Manfred Kirchheimer, 1981.
Fighting for the Right to Remain in Southwest Yonkers
Waverly Arms is a federally subsidized building located in southwest Yonkers that my organization, Tenants & Neighbors—a tenant advocacy group—has been involved with since 2008. The building’s tenants have weathered […]
Preserving Affordable Housing Through Tenant Advocacy
In March 2013, the National Low Income Housing Coalition introduced the United for Homes campaign, which proposes to create a source of funding for the National Housing Trust Fund by […]