Dec 9, 2024 · This story was co-published with The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy. Amaryllis Castillo gets to work at 7:45 a.m. for her job as a certified home health aide. The mother of two, who was 26 weeks pregnant when we spoke, works a six-hour shift caring for elderly patients, taking them to activities and out for lunch.

Jan 9, 2025 · 2024 was another relentless year of the housing crisis. Homelessness spiked year over year, both because of rent hikes and because of an influx of asylum seekers, and anti-homeless politics took hold in most major cities.

Jan 10, 2025 · On Oct. 1, 2024, tenants at two Kansas City, Missouri, apartment complexes started a rent strike. Residents of Independence Towers and Quality Hill Towers, organized under KC Tenants and a newly formed national coalition known as the Tenant Union Federation, had been asking their landlords to fix their dilapidated buildings for two years.They demanded repairs, called for collectively bargained ...

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Oct 7, 2024 · With the nation in the midst of a seemingly intractable affordable housing crisis, new possibilities are becoming visible. Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed a number of policies to make homes more affordable, including the potential to construct over three million new housing units in her first term should she be elected.

Jan 6, 2025 · The Bronx Gets Its First Independently-Owned Cultural Venue In Five Decades. With its dense population of working-class Black, Puerto Rican and Jewish communities, the South Bronx was once home to a unique hyper-local music and performance arts culture.

Jan 16, 2025 · This story was co-published with Urban Omnibus, a publication of the Architectural League of New York dedicated to advancing the collective work of citymaking.Sign up to receive weekly features via newsletter.. Right where Manhattan’s Chinatown and Lower East Side start fading into each other, the below-grade garden-style storefront that Hester Street Collaborative called home for most of ...

Jan 2, 2025 · Northwest D.C.’s Baldwin House, planned as both an affordable housing cooperative and a mutual aid hub, is poised to defy these odds, thanks to robust tenant organizing and a critical mass of mostly small-dollar donations.

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Oct 17, 2024 · These Former Prisoners Are Making Sure No One Leaves Prison Alone. In New Jersey’s Camden County, people with lived experience with incarceration meet people leaving jails and prisons at the gate with the support they need to reenter the community.