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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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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Why Homelessness for Women Is a Lot Harder Than It Is For Men
Women who face the challenges of homelessness have to deal with additional factors when they find themselves without a place to live.
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Why Britain’s Housing Crisis Heralds the Next Financial Crash
Housing prices in London have risen by 50% in the last five years – and when the UK property bubble goes boom, it will be proportionally bigger than the U.S. housing bust at the onset of the financial crisis in 2007.
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Seattle's Soaring Rents Are Fueling Homeless Crisis As More Move To the Street
Housing costs are skyrocketing in Seattle – up 12% for a family home in the last year – and a 2012 study in the Journal of Urban Affairs showed that an increase of $100 in median rents results in a 15% increase in the homeless population.
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Occupiers In London Meet Violent Police Response During Mass Eviction
Housing activists who were protesting the eviction of families took to the roofs Wednesday as enforcement officers used battering rams in an operation to remove them from housing estate.
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Housing Crisis Escalates As 13,000 Become Homeless Each Month in Los Angeles County
The number of people who are chronically homeless has overwhelmed the dwindling supply of affordable housing in southern California's sprawling metropolitan area.
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Explosion In Youth Homelessness Spurs Rise Of Sofa Surfing Across Britain
There has been a surge in homelessness among young people in the U.K., as the real number of homeless is three times higher than the government's "official figures."
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Why Inequality Is Making Los Angeles a Third World City
The deepening gap between rich and poor is both a sociological fact and a state of mind – as the cost of housing is up dramatically, and so is homelessness.
