affordable housing

Here's More Proof That Criminalizing Homelessness Doesn't Work

“Don’t criminalize our existence. Treat us like humans.”
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8-Year-Old Says What It’s Really Like To Be Homeless, Shatters Stereotypes

Homelessness doesn’t always look like what you think it does.
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What Really Happens When Your Company Helps Pay Your Rent

Getting a rent subsidy from your employer might seem like a great perk. At first...
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The Grim Reason Why Less People In San Francisco Struggle With Rent

Spoiler: it's not because housing is getting cheaper.
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The Only Way Millennials Can Afford To Live In Big Cities

We're not counting "have rich parents" as an option.
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Cheap Rent Or A Good Neighborhood: Sorry, You Probably Can't Have Both

If you're poor, you just can't win.
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Renters Are Mostly Screwed. Here’s A City That’s Actually Affordable.

Why you should ditch your unaffordable apartment and move to Des Moines.
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Expanding Legal Assistance Could Keep Low-Income Renters From Losing Homes: Study

Evicting tenants just exacerbates the cycle of urban poverty.
By Ellen Wulfhorst, Reuters

NYC Is Completely Unaffordable, But New Yorkers Are In Denial

Two-thirds of residents say they live in the "greatest city in the world," yet many of those people are barely getting by.
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Airbnb Spends $8 Million Lobbying Against San Francisco Ballot Initiative

Affordable housing advocates say it would open up more housing and help reduce the city's skyrocketing housing prices.
By Reuters