housing crisis

by Maxine Lowy. Journalist, editor and translator.   “Let’s go to La Toma!” “Youth and glory, La Victoria!” Twenty children alongside their parents and preschool educators chant and sing as they parade through the streets of their neighborhood on the…

By the year 2040, New York City and Long Island could lose over 80,000 homes to flooding, according to Averting Crisis, a new report released on Monday by the nonprofit Regional Plan Association (RPA). By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes The report said that in every NYC borough,…

Leticia Ortega de Ceballos lives 170 kilometres away from downtown Los Angeles (henceforth, LA). She told “Counter Punch” that she sleeps in her car so she can work two cleaning jobs: one at the Loews Hollywood Hotel, the other at…

By Alex Howlett In cities like New York, San Francisco, and Boston, housing prices and rents are high and rising. The usual prescription for bringing down housing prices is to build more housing. On the face of it, this makes…

By Skanda Kadirgamar Mayor Bill de Blasio’s 2018 State of the City address, held on Feb. 13 at Brooklyn’s renowned King’s Theater, was premised on a particularly bold claim. The words “Mayor Bill de Blasio Making New York America’s Fairest…

A million new homes and every family in a secure home they can afford A new generation of council homes to end the housing crisis New rights and security for private tenants and new opportunities for home ownership Jeremy Corbyn…