Housing

The War On The Poor Is Escalating

July 12, 2026 John Clarke, Canadian Dimension. Strategize! Austerity, Capitalism, Homeless, Housing, Poverty

We are now living in a period when poverty, homelessness, and social abandonment have reached crisis levels and the need for a united working-class challenge to this state of affairs is more important than ever. The official discourse in our society is geared to the proposition that poverty and homelessness stem from personal failings, if not moral dereliction. This assumption is shared by both right-wing and more liberal commentators, even if it is expressed by them in significantly different terms. The right-wingers simply condemn the poor as the architects of their own misfortune and seek to impose the full burden of austerity measures on them, backed up, of course, by generous doses of aggressive policing and prison sentences.

Vermont Is Boosting New Homes That Can Cut Energy Use In Half

July 4, 2026 Alison F. Takemura, New City. Create! climate crisis, Energy Efficiency, Housing, Vermont

Vermont just got its biggest delivery of superefficient manufactured homes — the latest example of how a pioneering state program can lower energy bills for residents of this type of affordable housing. The all-electric, heat-pump-equipped homes slash energy use by more than half compared with new conventional manufactured homes. To achieve that feat, each meets the exacting specifications under the Advanced Manufactured Home program, which was created by the state’s energy-efficiency utility Efficiency Vermont in 2024.

The Knicks And New York’s Disappearing Black Communities

June 19, 2026 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Black Communities, Gentrification, Housing, New York City (NYC)

Everyone loves a winning hometown team. The New York Knickerbockers basketball team, aka the Knicks, won the National Basketball Association (NBA) championship on June 13, 2026. They had not done so since 1973, when legends like Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Willis Reed, Earl Monroe, and Bill Bradley were playing. The end of five decades of disappointment created an infectious euphoria across all five boroughs that had not been seen in recent memory. Impromptu watch parties sprang up across the city as neighbors came together to see their team overcome past failure and prove naysayers wrong to win in a dramatic fashion.

In Eugene, Housing Advocates Call For Tenant Right To Purchase Act

June 16, 2026 Steve Dubb, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Strategize! City Council, Housing, Oregon, Tenant Rights

Jeff Albanese, program director at SquareOne Villages, an affordable housing co-op developer in Eugene, Oregon, notes that Oregon’s housing crisis has become so severe that it has vastly expanded the range of the possible. “There’s a lot of stuff that is on the table, including TOPA [tenant opportunity to purchase act] and social housing. We have [a] statewide rent control law now in Oregon,” he says. “Ten years ago, that just wasn’t on the table.” One sign of what Albanese is referencing: During a February work session, the Eugene City Council voted by a unanimous 7–0 margin to “ask the city manager to bring back more information on the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act for the council to discuss as a rental protection.”

How CLTs Are Powering Co-op Growth In Canada

June 5, 2026 Steve Dubb, Shelterforce. Create! Community Land Trust, Cooperatives, Housing, New Economy

Cooperative housing and community land trusts (CLT) are often posited as alternative paths for achieving community ownership of homes. But these two housing types can also be combined. Such a combination aims to marry the strong sense of community control that housing co-ops provide with the permanent affordability that CLT ownership helps ensure. In the United States, such a combination is rare but not unheard of. About 1.8 percent of CLT units are cooperative housing, according to a 2022 census conducted by Grounded Solutions Network, a national nonprofit that supports long-term affordable housing.

The US Military Is Intensifying Hawai’i’s Housing Affordability Crisis

May 29, 2026 Omar Ocampo, Inequality.org. Educate! Affordable Housing, Hawaii, Housing, US military

On the surface, the affordability crisis that afflicts both tenants and prospective homebuyers in Hawai’i appears to resemble those of other housing-stressed states across the country. With a shortage of housing units accessible to working-class households, a high concentration of short-term rentals, and a strong demand from wealthy and out-of-state buyers, an increasing number of Hawai’i’s residents are priced out of paradise and forced to migrate outwards in search of cheaper housing. But there is one element that makes Hawai’i’s housing market unique: the role of the U.S. military.

Inside Toronto’s Growing Tenant Revolt

May 28, 2026 Ken Theobald, Canadian Dimension. Strategize! Canada, Housing, Landlords, Tenant Unions

On Saturday, April 18, close to 300 people crammed into a school basement for a spirited founding convention of the new citywide Toronto Tenant Union (TTU). It was a riveting all-day event, an indicator of the growing momentum in the tenant and housing-justice movement. “Time to organize!” was the theme. “The Founding Convention of the Toronto Tenant Union marks a bold new chapter, merging our strength, and growing our collective power across the city,” read the convention call. “This isn’t just a meeting, it’s the start of a citywide movement.”

Denver Nonprofit Moves Homeless Youth To Permanent Housing Faster

May 16, 2026 Robert Davis, Next City. Educate! Denver, Homelessness, Housing, Youth

When 19-year-old C.J. Kesner moved into The Mothership six months ago, he had already cycled through multiple relatives’ homes across three states. Disagreements and broken trust had left him without a stable place to live. Now living at The Mothership, a youth homelessness shelter model that opened two years ago in Denver, Kesner has a bed to sleep in. He also sees a therapist, joins group activities with other residents, can access medical care, and has a case manager who placed him on a waitlist for housing serving people with autism.

Can The New Toronto Tenant Union Change The Tired Housing Debate?

May 11, 2026 Ricardo Tranjan, Canadian Dimension. Organize! Canada, Housing, Tenant Unions, Tenants, Toronto

On April 18, more than 300 tenants from across the Greater Toronto Area gathered at the founding convention of the Toronto Tenant Union (TTU), whose mission is to “fight rent hikes, win housing justice, and protect our homes.” Given the track record of its two largest founding groups—the York South-Weston Tenant Union and Climate Justice Toronto—the TTU is poised to fight landlords fiercely and win often. It could do even more. This new, city-wide tenant union could inject a much-needed dose of political honesty into housing debates.

Black Portlanders Were Displaced; New Project To Aid Their Return

April 23, 2026 Eliana Perozo, Next City. Create! forced displacement, Housing, Oregon, Portland, Racism

In an era when the Fair Housing Act is under attack across the country, a nonprofit in Portland, Oregon, has broken ground on a mixed-use development project that will house hundreds of Black Portlanders who were previously displaced by the city’s use of eminent domain. The $163 million project, on a 2.99-acre site at the intersection of North Russell Street and North Williams Avenue, will eventually be home to former residents and their descendants of Albina. The community in the North and Northeast sections of the city was once home to nearly 80% of Portland’s Black population.

HUD May End Support For Mixed-Status Immigrant Households

April 18, 2026 Eliana Perozo, Next City. Resist! Housing, Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Immigrant Rights, Public Housing

Families with mixed immigration status may soon lose support from the Trump-era Department of Housing and Urban Development. In February, the agency announced a proposed rule that would prohibit “mixed-status” families, which include U.S. citizens and people without legal immigration status, from living in public and other subsidized housing. HUD proposed a similar rule in 2019 that was ultimately blocked after receiving over 30,000 comments during the public comment period, with more than 95% of the comments in opposition to the rule. Now housing advocates are back at it again, with just days left to submit comments in hopes of stopping this rule.

A New Homelessness Strategy Is Sweeping California

April 9, 2026 Marisa Kendall, Scheer Post. Create! California, Eviction Defense, Homelessness, Housing

Maybe the way out of California’s homelessness crisis is to prevent it in the first place, rather than focusing only on people who have already lost their housing. That’s the thinking behind a program in Santa Clara County — and others like it around the state — that has gained traction and will soon test its strategy beyond California. These prevention programs have found that with a payment of several thousand dollars, aid organizations can head off someone’s homelessness. That both prevents the trauma that comes with losing a home, and saves the state or local government the potentially tens of thousands of dollars it takes to help someone after they become homeless.

This Man Offers A New Way To Recycle Old Homes

April 6, 2026 Josh Kozelj and Quinn Kelly, The Tyee. Create! Canada, Deconstruction, Housing, Recycling

Erick Serpas Ventura knows the bones of a good home. In El Salvador, where he was born, Serpas Ventura was raised in a small house until the age of five. When a civil war broke out, he and his family emigrated to Vancouver. They settled in a 1920s heritage home held together by ancient trees and handmade bricks, a structure similar to the one featured in the video above. Having lived in a smaller, simpler abode in El Salvador, Serpas Ventura gained appreciation for the people who built their Vancouver home. He says it felt like “a massive mansion” compared with what they’d known back home.

Mobile Home Residents Demand Kingsley Corporation Get Out

March 25, 2026 Rain Mendoza, Fight Back! News. Resist! California, Housing, Landlord, Tenant Rights

Santa Ana, CA – On Saturday, March 21, Coach Royal Mobile Home residents protested at the entrance of the mobile home park. The protest was in response to yearslong abuse at the hands of the park managers, eviction, and theft of mobile homes by Kingsley Corporation. There was also a recent suicide of resident Maria Pedraza due to the abuse. The Coach Royal residents are majority working-class immigrants. The protest started strong with residents and supporters from Community Service Organization Orange County (CSO OC) protesting in front of the Coach Royal entrance.

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