#Housing

Laura O'Connell Rapira

laura_oc_rapira

Recently, my cousin moved in with me after I found out he was wracking up debt of $100/day in "emergency housing" aka a motel with broken facilities. He was facing

Peggy Bailey

PeggyBaileyDC

Thread: Today, a new HUD rule that unravels federal #housing anti-discrimination efforts goes into effect. Here’s why that’s damaging to millions It largely reverses a 2015 regulation that advanced

Cambridge Citizens Advice

CambridgeCAB

Good morning. Lee here, Specialist Adviser. I hope you are well. The Housing Q&A has now started and I will begin with adding a recent case study to show how

L A S H

lash__13

All I’ve saw last 24 hours is how it’s unfair that asylum seekers get treated better than our own homeless people so I’m gonnae clear a few things up here.

Liam Dillon

dillonliam

THREAD: Courts in California are resuming eviction cases, but there’s also been a battery of new rules that aim to keep tenants economically affected by COVID-19 in their homes. I

Los Angeles Times

latimes

Nearly one in three renters in the U.S. failed to pay their April rent at the beginning of the month, a landlord industry group has warned(via @latimesopinion)https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-09/renter-bail-out-rent-forgiveness It’s not

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

OMG I just had a thought. (I know, occasionally it still happens).In Japan, workers get seniority-based raises. In America they often don't.So HOUSE PRICE APPRECIATION became the vehicle by which

Brent Toderian

BrentToderian

Most of the conversations I’m hearing & reading about the permanent growth of virtual working aka working from home #WFH post-pandemic are dramatically oversimplifying the implications & ripple effects to

Philadelphia Community Bail Fund

Phillybailout

THREAD: As RWG reminds us, liberation isn’t just the absence of cages, but the presence of everything we collectively need to not only survive but thrive. Support our two comrades

akt

aktcharity

Today, the one month pause on evictions officially ends.From our interactions and casework with young people on the impact of COVID-19, we know that joblessness and financial insecurity has meant

Jonathan Cheng

JChengWSJ

The coronavirus hasn’t stopped the world’s biggest asset bubble from getting bigger. In March, 288 apartments in a new Shenzhen development sold out in eight minutes. Important story on China's

Graham Neale

GrahamNeale

Great Cllr day today.Hosted an online #Lockdown surgery. Then visited all the housing repairs flagged up by residents. 1st problem:The deck-Access balconies on Prospect House @SE1 were flooded, because the

Sheldon L. Tarpey

SheldonLT

Interesting how, when it came to closing the mines in the 70s and 80s with limited unemployment support and without any means of helping workers transition to other means of

Bill Kinkle, RN, EMT-P, CRS

billkinkle

When a person who is experiencing homelessness enters an inpatient addiction treatment center it should be an immediate priority to begin gathering housing resources and a concrete plan. It’s downright

panoptic con artist

alexbaca

We have known this forever—literally, this is basically American housing policy—and anyone that tells you that you *just* need new construction or *just* need more targeted subsidies is deliberately obfuscating

Danielle Chemtob

daniellechemtob

Thread: 1/ Since RNC brought up the issue of single-family zoning, I thought it would be useful to have a quick refresher. First, some history: after race-based zoning was outlawed