The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Minneapolis Confronts Its History of Housing Segregation
By doing away with single-family zoning, the city takes on high rent, long commutes, and racism in real estate in one fell swoop.
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Rebel Cities 16: Cape Town Housing Movement Uses Occupy Tactics to Battle Apartheid's Legacy
Conceived as a tenant and workers movement, Reclaim the City's first aim was to pressure the Cape Town government to turn publicly held land into social housing rather than sell it off to developers.
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America’s Homelessness Crisis Is Deepening
More than half a million people in the United States are homeless on any given night, and with housing prices rising and wages stagnant, the problem will only keep getting worse.
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Rent Strikes From San Francisco to London: "Together We Can Defeat the Housing Market"
“This community is being displaced by the greed and avarice of property pimps preying on the weak and the disenfranchised."
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Low Wages, Rising Rents: Why California Workers Can’t Afford A Roof Over Their Head
According to the California Housing Partnership Corporation, a combination of falling incomes and high rents is driving the worst rental-housing crisis in California since World War II.
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Generation Rent: The U.K. Housing Ladder Is Collapsing for Under-40s
By 2025, a quarter of all households in Britain will privately rent – with the biggest increase among those aged between 20 and 39 – due to rising house prices and a shortage of affordable homes.
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Thousands In London Protest Housing Crisis Demanding "Homes for Britain"
Spokespeople from the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Greens also addressed Tuesday's event – the largest protest yet at successive governments’ failure to address the shortage of affordable housing in the UK.
