I live in a very stereotypical low-income housing neighborhood. Most of the inhabitants are Hispanic, like my family and I, and African-American. But my street is more than that.
Carl Gibson | Posted 05.16.2012
George Lucas, worth $3.2 billion as of 2011, may have ruined his reputation with his fans by creating Jar Jar Binks, but his latest move may be the finest moment of his career.
HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 05.08.2012
SAN FRANCISCO -- Only weeks after neighborhood complaints forced filmmaker George Lucas to abandon plans to convert a renovated Marin County ranch int...
Mara Slade | Posted 04.23.2012
Our solution is to move Habitat for Humanity to a manufacturer of modular homes that streamlines the building process through employed labor, bringing economic development and jobs to those at the base of the economic pyramid.
Alexandre Lemille | Posted 04.11.2012
The lack of access to decent houses impacts more than 1.6 billion people -- holding each other hand-in-hand, it represents the equivalent to the circumference of 60 Earth-sized planets -- is not even a UN Millennium goal!
Scout, Ph.D. | Posted 03.27.2012
The term "trailer trash" is symbolic of a type of systemic discrimination that's allowing low income home owners from Appalachia to Arizona to fall through the cracks.
HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.14.2012
Everyone knows the economy has been rough on homeowners lately. But for people who rent -- especially for people who rent and don't make very much mon...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.17.2012
The poorest people in America are running out of places to live. In every state in the country, there are people looking for cheap rental housing -...
AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 04.17.2012
CHICAGO — The MacArthur Foundation on Thursday named 15 organizations in six countries as winners of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effect...
The Chicago Reporter | By: Angela Caputo | Posted 03.06.2012
Mary Smith was living on a quiet Woodlawn block in 1978 when she got the news that she landed an apartment in one of the neighborhood's first federall...
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.01.2011
MIAMI -- Sergio Palacios doesn't have the typical South Florida foreclosure story. He doesn't live in a McMansion in some suburban subdivision. He ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jackie Ginley | Posted 11.18.2011
Reporters Bob Porterfield and Jackie Ginley are exploring the financial challenges facing Hercules for The Huffington Post and Hercules Patch. Read th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jackie Ginley | Posted 11.17.2011
Reporters Bob Porterfield and Jackie Ginley are exploring the financial challenges facing Hercules for The Huffington Post and Hercules Patch. Read th...
Sam Slovick | Posted 12.14.2011
I took a walk through the construction site at the nefarious Ford Hotel with two former residents, Abraham and Travelle. They spent their childhood in the well-documented hellhole, witnessing life at the bottom rung of capitalism.
Chicago Reporter | By: Angela Caputo | Posted 11.07.2011
Jessica Moore showed up at the Daley Center, shaken and without a lawyer. She had a bad feeling about how things might play out in court. A lawyer ...
Brad Lander | Posted 08.03.2011
Rent regulations aren't just our best affordable housing program. They are something much deeper: policy for a diverse, stable city.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 06.11.2011
Paul Ryan's core beliefs aren't everyone's core beliefs. Many Americans don't believe that the only measure of effective government is "How much spending can you cut?" or "How many programs can you cripple?"
Daniel K. Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011
This past Saturday, Premier Wen Jiabao delivered his 2011 "Report on the Work of the Government" to the 3,000 delegates gathered in Beijing for the Na...
The Huffington Post | Dominique Fenton | Posted 05.25.2011
Today we're interviewing Robin Hughes, the president of Abode Communities (AC), an organization that builds safe and affordable homes for low-income f...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles company that built more than 50 low-income housing projects in California is under federal investigation into claims...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles company that built more than 50 low-income housing projects in California is under federal investigation into claims...
Robyn Griggs Lawrence | Posted 05.25.2011
Natural Home just published its Top 10 Green-Built Neighborhoods list, applauding forward-thinking, responsible housing developments.
Sheila Crowley | Posted 05.25.2011
while we are arguing over the potential loss of public housing someday in the future, public housing agencies are already demolishing and selling off public housing under current law.
Bill Quigley | Posted 05.25.2011
Decades of ineffective and misguided policies have fueled disinvestment, demolition, and deregulation of public housing. The consequence has been a devastating displacement of residents.
Posted 05.25.2011
For years, the site of the Cabrini-Green housing projects on Chicago's Near North Side has undergone massive transformation. The infamous housing pro...
Elaine Vilorio | Posted 05.18.2012