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March 2024

Six Updates From Past Newsletter Posts
Image: A panel from the terrific “cartoon report,” The Tragedy and Tenacity of Public Housing, created by Eric Oner and published in The Nation. Thank…
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Governments Fund Gentrification; We Can Stop It
Louisville Activists Show the Way: "Anyone Can Do This . . . And Should Do This!"
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February 2024

Six Facts About Housing and Racism, Part Three: Public Housing's Struggles, and How We Fix This
We conclude this important discussion with two final points: Public Housing’s Struggles are Rooted in Racism, and We Can Make Things Right, If We Want…
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Six Facts About Racism and Housing, Part Two: Predatory Practices and Urban "Development"
Image by David Woo Thanks for checking out Part Two of a three-part series on racism in housing. It is telling that it takes three separate posts to…
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Six Facts About Racism and Housing
Most semesters of our law school clinic, after the students have been to court several times, I ask them to guess the racial composition of the township…
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January 2024

Our Housing Crisis is Literally Killing People
On Wednesday this week, my students and I worked with several unhoused persons who had been recently living in dangerous, unhealthy apartments or homes…
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Can Cities Punish People for Being Homeless? U.S. Supreme Court Will Soon Decide
Photo by JM Suarez via Wikimedia Commons Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review an appeals court decision that puts the criminalization of…
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Stop the “Assembly-Line Eviction Agencies”
Some of you may recall last month’s post and Common Dreams article, “Shouldn’t Every Day Be Like No-Evictions Christmas?” It told the story of how most…
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December 2023

Most Popular Posts from 2023
Photo of Motels4Now resident by Myriam Nicodemus Thank you for reading this newsletter all or some of the past twelve months. As anyone who follows…
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“This Place Saved my Life": Encampment and Tiny Home Community Provides Home for the Unhoused
Thanks to Common Dreams for publishing my article a few days ago. You can read it online at their site here. If you are moved to learn more about or…
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