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Housing Crisis
August 19, 2022
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Lauren Lee White
The 2028 L.A. Olympics Are Already Creating a Housing Disaster
As the city prepares for the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics two years later, longtime residents are being forced out.
November 10, 2021
Critical Mass
Max Holleran
Homeless at the Gates of Disney World
Orlando, Florida, has become the epicenter of America’s housing crisis
June 23, 2021
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Rebecca Burns
Like Airbnb, but for Flophouses
A Georgia start-up aims to become the Airbnb for temporary shared housing. It calls it a solution to the housing crisis. Former tenants tell a different story.
April 2, 2021
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Katie Prout
Inside the Last Men’s Hotel in Chicago
For those who live there, Chicago’s Ewing Annex Hotel is a refuge, an artifact, and a last chance. The man who’s been holding it together for more than 20 years is about to retire.
March 30, 2021
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Chris Moody
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Living Nowhere
As more people are giving up traditional addresses for life on the road, some find themselves wondering if they escaped the grind or just found a new one.
December 2, 2020
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Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
Who Gets to Recover From the Pandemic?
A “return to normal” is a comforting promise to the winners of the world.
October 30, 2020
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Gili Ostfield
Ten Moves, Two Tents, and Five Months of a Housing Reckoning in Minneapolis
During a summer of uprising and mutual aid, Nadine Little moved from park underpasses to hotels and back again. She’s not alone.
September 18, 2020
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Nick Martin
I’m Living Under the Weight of Nearly Four Months of Back Rent
“What really worries me is what’s gonna happen next year. I may find more income sources; I may not.”
August 11, 2020
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Apoorva Tadepalli
A Radical Movement to Take Back Our Cities
Protest encampments across the country are forcing questions about housing, public space, and who our neighborhoods are really for.
June 1, 2020
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Chris Moody
Living in Your Car as a Pandemic Consumes Your City
A “safe parking lot” in San Diego is a haven and a holding pattern during the coronavirus lockdown and an ongoing housing crisis.
February 17, 2020
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Andrew Schwartz
A Wildcat Strike Grows out of a Housing Crisis
In Santa Cruz, an unauthorized graduate student strike threatens to spill into its second week, with no clear resolution in sight.
January 22, 2020
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Maximillian Alvarez
Mothers Against Vampire Real Estate
In response to a reformist chorus directing them to wait, Moms 4 Housing opted to address a housing crisis with immediate action—and won.
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