Phoenix Just Had Its Hottest July Ever. So What Now?
Charles Sanders, 59, right, pauses as Kevin Hendershot, 47, pours ice into a bucket outside their tent in “The Zone” homeless encampment in downtown Phoenix during historic 2023 heatwave.Matt York/AP This story was originally published by the Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. That Phoenix is hot should come as…
Cheaper Housing or More Homelessness? Your Call, California.
Levi Meir Clancy/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The primary reason people become unhoused in California is unaffordable housing, including due to loss of income, according to a study released Tuesday. Around a third of the United States’ unhoused population—some 170,000 people—lives in the state. The…
Evictions Are Soaring Beyond Pre-Pandemic Numbers
AP/Elise Amendola Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Evictions are rising rapidly as pandemic-era moratoriums have ended nationwide. Citing data from the Eviction Lab, AP reports that some cities have seen eviction filings rise 50 percent higher than they were before Covid. “Across the country,…
Late Payments and Confusion: One Startup’s Struggle to Make Rent Easier
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Like many households over the past year, Jose and his family were being squeezed by rising costs. “Everything is going up,” he said. “The food. The cost of day care.” To free up space in their budget, they turned…
Think Globally, Build Like Hell Locally
The United States is on the brink of its most consequential transformation since the New Deal. Read more about what it takes to decarbonize the economy, and what stands in the way, here. In March, “Save Lafayette” finally lost a long-running battle to stop a 315-unit housing complex from being built in Lafayette, a small…
The Green Movement’s Best Weapon Has Become a Problem
The United States is on the brink of its most consequential transformation since the New Deal. Read more about what it takes to decarbonize the economy, and what stands in the way, here. In the late ’60s and early ’70s, when runaway development with little study or oversight led to the draining of the Everglades,…