Housing

Local governments must explore ways to minimize commercial and residential property deterioration and subsequent vacancy.

In early June, residents and organizers successfully pressured the Ithaca Common Council to pass a resolution that requests that the state grant them the authority to cancel rent in response to COVID-19. Contrary to many headlines, it didn’t actually cancel rent—yet.

Frances Goldin’s vision was of a multiracial, multiethnic community based on the principles of justice. Her instruction to us was to fight for it.

Six regional and state housing advocates discuss the connections between uprisings over racial injustice, the pandemic, and the need for housing security.

Tenant organizers and legal services groups are working vigorously to get ahead of eviction cases as housing court processes restart.

Building more units has been touted as the solution to the housing crisis, but the location of those units may be just as important as the number.

A recent spate of vacant home occupations echo squatters campaigns of the past.

As past economic crises show, insufficient action today could all but ensure that high school and college graduates will struggle with housing insecurity as they age.

A review of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.

The question of integrating affordable housing units required by inclusionary zoning on-site versus allowing developers to pay a fee to locate them off-site has long been a contentious one.

By mid-March, the state of Vermont and the Champlain Housing Trust were able to offer quarantine space for Burlington’s homeless population.

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