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How Education and Housing Advocates Worked Together to Win More Rental Assistance
In Maryland, parents and school leaders joined with housing advocates to win additional rental assistance, targeted to families in the state's community schools.
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A Resource for Well-Meaning Landlords
When I picked up Peter Shapiro’s book, The Good Landlord: A Guide to Making a Profit While Making a Difference, my first thought was, “What happens when you can’t do both, or have to choose one over the other?”
Black and Brown Tenant Solidarity in Oakland
Last October, Oakland, Calif., passed a Tenant Protection Ordinance. This strong measure defending tenants against the kinds of landlord harassment that often take place in a rapidly appreciating market includes […]
Landlords Blacklist Activist Tenants
“You can’t get an apartment if you were evicted,” said the broker before she hung up on me. “The reason doesn’t matter.” I had already been refused two apartments because […]
“No Evictions. We Won’t Move!”
“This land is too valuable to permit poor people to park on it.” —Justin Herman, former executive director of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, 1970 The land Herman was referring […]