Even before the pandemic, we were already facing a housing crisis. Record numbers of people were paying nearly half their income in rent, often cramming multiple people into small apartments. Tent cities were on the rise. Millions had to live far from work to afford...
Finding Housing During a Pandemic If the global pandemic situation wasn’t hard enough to deal with, some of us are finding ourselves in an even more complicated situation by having to find new housing during this time. This virus doesn’t seem to care about timing....
From an Oakland Resident Here in the so-called United States we are at just over a month of shelter in place ordinances due to COVID-19. We here in California have benefited from a statewide eviction moratorium for renters. In so-called Oakland (actually the land of...
To the wealthy, we are things to exploit, not people who deserve respect. Nothing could make this more clear than the sick fact that landlords are using the current economic crisis to demand sexual favors. According to Renee Williams of the National Housing Law...
The COVID-19 crisis has put many people’s lives as well as livelihoods at risk. Unemployment claims climbed to over 10 million in the course of two weeks. One poll showed that more than half of Americans under 45 have lost their jobs. As a result, people have been...
