Basic necessities such as food, healthcare, education, and housing should be guaranteed to all.
homelessness
Senior and female: a renter’s saga
An honest tale of rent hikes and expert advice on urgent reforms.
End Seattle’s inhumane sweeps of homeless camps
In “liberal,” Democratic Party-controlled Seattle, elected officials and cops treat the city’s homeless as less than human.
Homeless folks on campus — a humanity check
A union shop steward discusses how his college campus is dealing with issues around homelessness.
LA’s homeless in crisis as buildings sit empty
A new campaign in LA is organizing for vacant city property to be used to provide shelter for those without.
Steve Hoffman campaign statement: A plan to address the housing crisis
Solutions like relying on the market to solve this urgent economic and human rights problem are phony through and through. For real relief, let’s stop vilifying public housing, and expand it to meet the need!
Tell Disney CEO Bob Iger: Don’t discriminate against your union employees!
Pressure Disney to give all of its employees the $1000 “tax cut” bonus they were promised!
L.A. activists tell city officials to make shelter and sanctuary real
The petition drive for sanctuary and shelter for all struck a chord with those who believe that immigrants and the homeless deserve freedom from want, insecurity, and fear.
Gimme shelter: A radical, practical plan to address the housing crisis
Homelessness is one thing shared by many full-time workers, the newly unemployed, and those displaced by gentrification. Homelessness soars in cities and towns across the U.S. and millions more are at risk of losing their homes. Right to the City, a national alliance founded to oppose gentrification and fight displacement of the poor, calls today’s… Read more »
Turn up the heat on LA City and County Officials to end the housing and homeless crisis
Hollywood dream tours of mega-mansions can’t mask LA’s housing and homeless nightmare. From north to south, streets are lined with people without shelter—25,000 within city limits; 47,000 in LA County according to a January count. Blacks are 50% of those, and the numbers of women, children, LGBTQ youth, and elders are on the rise. In… Read more »
