Housing

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.

What Detroit Can Learn From Other Cities’ Home Repair Loan Programs

March 17, 2026 KoLevin, Next City. Create! Debt, Detroit, Economic Assistance, Housing

After 10 years and just $16.7 million in repairs — a sliver of what’s needed to fix Detroit’s aging homes — a city-backed home repair loan program is shut down for an overhaul. That means one fewer option for homeowners desperate to fix leaky roofs and ancient plumbing — even as Mayor Mary Sheffield’s new administration said it plans to prioritize home repair. A revamped loan program could play a key role in helping the tens of thousands of Detroiters who live in substandard housing. Private credit is one of the few funding sources with the potential scale to meet residents’ profound needs — if city leaders move aggressively to make loans more accessible.

An Unsettling Climate Warning For Homeownership

February 21, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! climate crisis, Extreme weather, Global heating, Housing, Insurance

Earth’s climate system has suddenly shifted to a new phase of global warming acceleration that few saw coming. This ups the ante for risks of severe climate-related disaster scenarios following a record-shattering year in 2025. This directly impacts American homeownership, whether it is compatible with current U.S. energy/climate policies. “The last three years are indicative of an acceleration in the warming. They’re not consistent with the linear trend that we’ve been observing for the 50 years before that,” according to Robert Rohde, chief scientist at the Berkeley Earth monitoring group.

Financing Freedom: How We Funded Our Co-Op

February 19, 2026 Ray the Spirit. Create! Cooperatives, Financing, Housing, Preservation

When I shared our recent journey to settling into our new home one of the things that most interested people was how the finances work. It is also the aspect of co-operative living that seems to present the biggest challenge to banks, government bodies and boomers alike. In simple terms we are a fully mutual housing co-operative. This means that all of our tenants are members, and all of our members are directors/decision-makers. So while we do all pay rent, we also get a say in what the rent is set at (in our case Local Housing Allowance level) and how that rent is used.

Connecticut Tenants Union Launches Boycott Of Real Estate Giant

February 3, 2026 Louis Henry, People's World. Resist! boycott, Connecticut, Housing, Landlord, Tenant Rights, Tenants Union

East Lyme, Conn.—The Connecticut Tenants Union and its working-class allies have launched a boycott of Alpha Capital. In a petition to support the boycott, the Tenants Union is calling on all people to refuse to engage in business with Alpha Capital. Refuse to rent apartments, refuse to buy condos, refuse to sell or buy properties with this horrible landlord, they say. Over the last year, tenant unions in Southeast Connecticut have gone public, demanding that their landlord, Alpha Capital Funds, come to the table to negotiate fair leases and address tenant needs. In response, Alpha is trying to bust organized, multi-racial, and multi-generational communities.

Homelessness Providers Stuck In Limbo Awaiting Federal Funds

January 12, 2026 Roshan Abraham, Next City. Resist! Austerity, Homelessness, Housing, Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

The federal government’s largest pool of funds for housing homeless people continues to face uncertainty a year into the second Trump administration. On Nov. 13, 2025, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for its Continuum of Care (CoC) Program, allocating $3.9 billion of competitive federal grants to shelters, permanent supportive housing and other responses to homelessness. At the same time, HUD said it would not renew two-year awards that were approved by Congress in 2024. The grant funds all have different start dates, but renewals were set to start in January, with funds disbursed throughout 2026.

Still The Golden State?

January 3, 2026 Mark Kreidler, Scheer Post. Educate! California, Housing, Poverty, wealth inequality

California is nothing if not a land of contrast. It is a state of astounding economic might, yet it carries the highest poverty rate in the nation. It has more residents on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans than any other state, but also has the most homeless people — nearly 25% of the entire U.S. total. And even as it touts its standing as the world’s fourth-largest economy, state or country, the gap between the rich and poor in California remains near historic highs. Wealthy residents enjoyed skyrocketing investment returns during the pandemic and into the A.I. boom, while low-income workers were laid off service economy jobs and then ate into their savings — if they had them — in order to survive.

Chicago Budget Fight: Corporate Interests Clash With Working-Class

December 22, 2025 Gabriel Miller, Fight Back! News. Resist! Chicago, Housing, Illinois, SNAP, Transportation

Chicago, IL – Corporate-backed alderpersons pushed through an unbalanced budget to avoid taxing big businesses on Saturday, December 20, but conceded important measures after sustained pressure from working-class Chicagoans. The final budget package, championed by conservative council members, promises to sell to private debt collectors nearly $100 million debt from water bills, parking tickets and ambulance fees. It also increases liquor and gambling taxes and sells city spaces for advertising. These measures, which have been assessed as fiscally irresponsible by the city’s budget experts, are the last ditch effort by the group of oppositional alderpersons who have fought to avoid instituting a corporate head tax, in which the largest 3% of corporations would pay less than a thousandth of a percent of their profits based on the number of workers they employ.

As Tenants Organize, Landlords Embrace Old-School Union-Busting

December 14, 2025 Rebecca Burns and Thomas Birmingham, In These Times. Resist! Housing, Landlords, Tenant Union, union busting, Unions

When a group of renters at New Haven, Connecticut’s Sunset Ridge apartments gathered last month to announce they had formed a tenants union, they were interrupted by some uninvited guests. Since September, Sunset Ridge tenant organizers had been going door-to-door speaking with neighbors about their living conditions, including persistent mold that’s the likely culprit behind a spate of respiratory illnesses in the 312-unit building. With the help of the Connecticut Tenants Union (CTTU), a statewide union of renters, the group collected signatures from more than 160 residents — enough to file for certification with the city

Canada Has Become A Hostage Of Its Own Housing Bubble

December 14, 2025 James Hardwick, Canadian Dimension. Create! Affordable Housing, Canada, Housing, Inflation, Social Housing

At the beginning of the millennium home prices began rising faster than incomes. As time went on, housing became less and less affordable. When the global financial crisis hit in 2008 real estate values continued their rapid growth even as markets crashed in the United States and Britain. For a quarter-century rising housing costs outpaced wages, pricing out generations of Canadians and pushing thousands into homelessness. What would it take for home-price-to-income ratios to return to the level of the early aughts? What would need to happen for housing to become affordable again?

Tenants Confront Landlord Disruption

December 2, 2025 Peter Fousek and Cameron Harrison, People's World. Resist! Housing, Landlords, Tenant Unions, union busting

The struggle over who controls the roof over a worker’s head erupted into open confrontation on the steps of New Haven City Hall last Thursday, as a newly formed public tenants union at Sunset Ridge Apartments faced down a landlord-backed “counter-demonstration.” The response by the landlord, Capital Reality, which included counter-protestors, police presence, and a union-busting law firm, highlights the growing battle between private equity and working-class renters in a national tenant organizing drive.

Fueling The Future Of Community Ownership

December 2, 2025 Miriam Axel-Lute, ShelterForce. Create! Affordable Housing, Community Land Trust, Community Wealth, Housing

An enduring vision for many people across the country is to collectively own local land and buildings, thus controlling how those properties are used and who benefits from them. It’s a way for people to not only care for their neighborhoods and neighbors, but to also push back against outside influences that are exploiting and extracting value from communities. While there are some forms of community ownership—like community land trusts, limited-equity co-ops, and resident-owned manufactured housing parks—that are fairly well-known, there are new ones being developed as well to serve communities in new ways.

Santa Fe’s Plan For A Real Minimum Wage Offers Lessons For California

November 29, 2025 Mark Kreidler, Scheer Post. Strategize! California, Cost of living, Housing, Minimum Wage, New Mexico

California has in recent years turned up its effort to establish minimum wages that allow workers to afford life in the Golden State. But the most daring experiment may well be coming not from particularly high-cost Los Angeles or San Francisco, but from a couple of states east. On Nov. 13, the City Council in Santa Fe, New Mexico, voted to integrate the cost of housing in its calculation of the citywide minimum wage going forward. According to the UC Berkeley Labor Center, this marks the first time in the U.S. that a city has factored local housing costs directly into setting its minimum.

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