What Happens When Wall Street Becomes Your Landlord?
Wall Street rental empires pit the profits of investors against the needs of tenants — leading to absurd rent increases, dangerous negligence, and high eviction rates.
Stop Talking About ‘Winners and Losers’ from Corporate Tax Cuts
No working person should pay more to reward billionaires and corporate tax dodgers.
If The Trump-GOP Tax Plan Passes, Kiss Your Home’s Equity Goodbye!
The Trump-GOP tax plan is a declaration of war on homeowners, homebuilders, realtors, and the mortgage industry.
Wall Street Loan Sharks Preying on Neighborhoods
Alumni of the Contract Buyers League regroup to fight back.
The New Predators in an Old Mortgage Scam
The Contract Buyers League thought they stamped out predatory contracts for deeds, but thanks to private equity firms, these practices targeting low-income communities of color have resurfaced.
For Black Americans, MLK’s Dream Still Isn’t Reality
Housing was a key part of King’s vision for economic justice, but most black Americans don’t own homes.
A Green-Energy Founding Father
Scott Sklar fights for independence from fossil fuels by being whimsical and wonky.
Lending Dreams
An innovative new program helps low-income families become homeowners while engaging in social change.
Where We Dwell Is Changing Fast
The American homeownership rate has declined.
Illegal Foreclosure Epidemic
Robo-signing foreclosure paperwork is a federal crime, but no bank or banker has even been charged.
Separate but Unequal Borrowers
A proposed mortgage qualification rule could end home ownership as we know it.
Race and Extreme Inequality
Will Obama’s presidential candidacy signal a change for impoverished African-Americans?
This Land Is Their Land
In the era of the superrich, if a place is truly beautiful, ordinary people can’t afford to be there.
Anti-War Soldier: An Interview with Jonathan Hutto
Hutto talks about the founding of the Appeal for Redress and how the GI movement during the Vietnam War paved the way for the current movement.
State of the Dream 2008
IPS and United for a Fair Economy find the subprime lending crisis is causing the greatest loss of wealth to people of color in modern U.S. history.