Housing

Making Change From The Dirt Up

September 9, 2026 Andy Bichlbaum, Waging Nonviolence. Create! Arizona, Homeless, Housing, Invasive plants

Twenty-eight years ago, a group of neighbors in downtown Tucson, Arizona, led by permaculture designer Brad Lancaster, cut curbs in their neighborhood to let rainwater into the verge, where they guerrilla-planted indigenous flora. These and other crimes made their once-barren neighborhood an urban refuge. Then they put on their lobbying hats; today, Tucson’s government gives financial incentives to do what the scofflaws once did illegally. When I first moved back to Tucson part-time to find good care for my mother, I met David Walker, a friend of Brad’s with another ambitious vision: Use a huge, extremely destructive weed called buffelgrass — imported from Africa by the USDA and Big Cattle, for feed — to make beautiful adobe housing for the unhoused, while paying them to help build it.

Results, Not Rhetoric: How Austria’s Communists Govern

September 4, 2026 Zo Haderekh, People's World. Strategize! Austria, Communist Party, Democracy, Housing, Socialism

In the city of Graz, Austria, a city of about 300,000 people, the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) has been the dominant force in local government since the 1990s. Elke Kahr, the party’s leading figure, became mayor in 2021, the first Communist to lead an Austrian state capital since World War II. She was re-elected this past June. In the interview below, conducted by Zo Haderekh, newspaper of the Israeli Communist Party, veteran left activist Leo Kühberger, who ran on the KPÖ ticket in Graz, discusses why the party has been so successful.

Northeast Los Angeles Created A Playbook To Fight Speculators

September 2, 2026 Oscar Perry Abello, Next City. Strategize! Credit Unions, Housing, Land Reform, Los Angeles

Helen Leung opened escrow just a few days into the new year. She had six months to raise $8.3 million, and while she had some ideas, she didn’t know yet where she would find all of it. Over the previous 18 months, Leung had raised more than $5 million, successfully closing escrow for three acquisitions on behalf of LA Más, the northeast Los Angeles nonprofit where she’s executive director. Based in the largely Latino and Asian neighborhood known as Frogtown, LA Más wasn’t even in the housing market until about two years ago. But Leung feels pressure to move even faster.

LA Landlords Have A New Way To Make Renters Pay More

August 30, 2026 Erin Rode, LA Progressive. Educate! Housing, Landlords, Los Angeles, RUBS, Tenant Rights

In Alicia Yu’s first post-college apartment, a studio in Burbank, monthly utility costs were calculated through a process she’d never heard of. Her landlord had hired a third-party service to determine her share of the building’s utility costs using a formula unrelated to her actual usage — a system that critics say can leave tenants with wildly unpredictable bills. Her bills, calculated using what’s called a Ratio Utility Billing System, or RUBS for short, were initially manageable, typically totaling $40 to $80 per month. But when Yu moved to a different studio apartment in Koreatown, in another building managed by a landlord that uses the same approach to billing, her utility costs shot up to around $140 per month, a total that, she said, varies based on behind-the-scenes calculations that she is unable to assess.

How Not-For-Profits Make The Housing Crisis Worse

August 30, 2026 Laurence Braun-Woodbury, Canadian Dimension. Create! Canada, Housing, Neoliberalism, Nonprofits

There is a blocky, 34-unit low-rise just east of the Bonnie Doon Bridge on Edmonton’s south side. The slate-grey, four-storey building, called Hope Terrace, opened its doors in late 2022 with a mandate to house people with a history of homelessness and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. The people who live here have often led complex, difficult lives and have struggled to maintain housing in the private market. At Hope Terrace, they have access to the resources they need to thrive. Residents receive daily support from specially trained staff who are on site around the clock, helping with everything from emotional regulation and budgeting to food security, medical service integration, employment, and guest management.

Congress Finally Passed A Housing Bill; It Isn’t Enough

August 25, 2026 Layla Sayed and Logan Decker, Inequality.org. Educate! Congress, Housing, Privatization, ROAD to Housing Act

On July 11, 2026, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law, making it the most significant federal housing package enacted in more than three decades. Many are celebrating the bill for “simply existing”. However, for many working-class tenants, the bill is not enough. The 21st Century Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream, or ROAD, to Housing Act contains more than 60 provisions covering housing construction, manufactured and rural housing, homeownership, rental housing, veterans’ housing, federal program reform, and community banking. Its central strategy is to increase the housing supply by reducing regulatory barriers and encouraging state and local governments to allow more construction.

Why Tenant Unions Are Spreading Across College Campuses

August 19, 2026 Lily Seltz, In These Times. Organize! Higher Education, Housing, Student Activism, Tenant Rights

Alva Yanowitz spent much of her freshman year sick with a mysterious illness. She was tired all the time, with a sore throat and cough that wouldn’t go away. In late spring, Yanowitz ran a mold test in her dorm room at the University of Vermont (UVM), which she says came back positive. She figured it was too late to report the problem to the university, but as soon as she moved out of the room, she says, “my symptoms went away.” Spooked by the experience, Yanowitz later joined the UVM Student Tenant Union, a group spotlighting poor housing conditions on campus. Last fall, the group solicited student housing horror stories through a “Fucked Up Dorm Contest” on their Instagram.

Black New Yorkers Find Deeds To Their Homes Being Stolen

August 16, 2026 Michael O'Dea, People's World. Educate! Deed Theft, Housing, New York (NY), Racism

For many years activists in the movement for housing have seen massive construction of low income public housing as a major long-term part of the solution to the housing crisis. In the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Broolyn, however, people are now fighting not just for low income public housing but against deed theft which is contributing to a sharp and immediate worsening of the city’s housing crisis. Deed theft is a particularly pernicious and predatory housing problem. It occurs when “a thief takes the title to a home without the homeowner’s knowledge or approval.” It typically takes place in the form of forgery or fraud.

Older Adults Are Fighting For Housing Justice

August 15, 2026 Sandra Larson, In These Times. Organize! forced displacement, Housing, Seniors, Tenant Rights

On a late-May morning in the bustling commercial district of Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, David Nollman flags down pedestrians to gather signatures on a petition. The 78-year-old is soliciting support for efforts to preserve the affordability of the Forbes Building, a nearby subsidized apartment that houses mostly elderly and disabled residents, which he’s called home for 11 years. “I try to catch people before they go by and say, ‘What we’re actually trying to do is to save 147 units of affordable housing for elderly people who may end up on the street,’” says Nollman. “If they’re already past, most of the time they’ll stop and come back.”

Fire Sale

August 9, 2026 Chelsea Kirk, Dissent Magazine. Strategize! California, Capitalism, Disaster Recovery, forced displacement, Housing, Los Angeles, Wildfire

When the Eaton and Palisades fires tore through Los Angeles in January 2025, they did so on a scale the city had never before endured. Fire, of course, is not anomalous in Los Angeles. It is a recurring and constitutive feature of the region’s ecology. What distinguished these fires was their magnitude. The Eaton and Palisades fires displaced more people than any California fire in over a century, including the 2018 Camp Fire—the deadliest in the state’s history—and other conflagrations over the past decade. Over the course of twenty-four days, roughly 150,000 residents were forced from their homes.

Taking Co-Living Seriously In Architecture And Design

August 4, 2026 David Bollier. Create! Architecture, Co-housing, Housing, The Commons

Surging real estate markets, among other factors, have made US housing unaffordable to large segments of the population, especially young people. So much of it is designed for conventional nuclear families and upscale buyers seeking luxury amenities. For lower- and middle-income people, simply finding affordable housing is hard enough; it almost seems utopian to want housing with attractive public amenities, shared spaces, and a spirit of neighborliness and belonging. Fortunately, a number of renegade architects, builders, and city planners see great potential in shared living arrangements.

From Tent To House In 11 Days

August 4, 2026 Frank W. Lewis and Michael Indriolo, Next City. Create! Cleveland, Homelessness, Housing, Housing First

When 2025 started, Marthe Marie Vernet was getting by working as a visiting nurse’s aid for veterans and helping to manage the apartment building where she lived with her adult son, Stephon, and their dog, Gorgeous, an exuberant, mostly white husky mix. A dispute with the property owner over the building’s condition ended that living arrangement. She needed to move but didn’t have enough savings to put down a deposit and first month’s rent on a new place. No relatives could take them in. Shelters were out of the question because she would have to separate from Stephon and give up Gorgeous, probably for good.

Housing Policy Should Protect, Not Displace, Disability Communities

August 3, 2026 Janiah Miller, Inequality.org. Create! Disability Rights, Displacement, Housing, Rent control

For those in the disability community, it has always taken a village. When your life is filled with doctor’s appointments, chronic illness symptoms, and navigating a world that isn’t built for accessibility, being surrounded by reliable family, friends, and peers doesn’t just enrich the day-to-day — it makes the day-to-day possible. Yet, the lack of affordable housing and rent in the U.S. is throwing this critical ecosystem out of balance. As home prices climb and renters contend with skyrocketing leases and utilities, disabled people often have no choice but to leave the communities they’ve built because they’ve been priced out.

Real Estate Jitters At Tropic Of Cancer

August 2, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Create! climate crisis, Extreme weather, Florida, Housing, Insurance

Florida is the nation’s barometer of climate change. It’s on the cutting-edge of climate at latitude 24.5°N-to-31°N in-line with Egypt, Saudia Arabia, and Mexico. Significantly, it aligns with Tropic of Cancer at 23.5°N, the hottest latitude on Earth. It’s there that climate change dances its special rhythm in a precursor of what’s in store for the States. It shows up there first. Homeowners in Florida can attest to the costliness of living along the world-famous Tropic of Cancer via home insurance premiums, directly impacted by a rapidly changing climate that’s literally changing homeowner’s lives. Will other high-risk regions of America follow suit and how soon?

‘We Keep Us Safe’: The Fight For Human Rights In Binghamton

July 17, 2026 Rob Warzyniak, People's World. Resist! Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, New York (NY)

Two years ago, when Jasmine Stradford and her partner, along with their three kids, fell behind on their rent, the landlord evicted them. The family was now at the mercy of New York’s emergency shelter system and what little it had to offer. The emergency shelter system was designed to provide not only shelter, but also food, help finding permanent housing, and child care so parents can find work, go to school, or look for housing. They received almost none of that. The Stradford family was one of many in the growing trend involving homeless people in New York who live outside the city, pushing people in need of shelter into hotels.

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