What If Unhoused People Designed Their Own Homes?
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In East Oakland, home to what the San Francisco Chronicle calls the “Bay Area’s hottest housing market,” a row of stucco townhomes sprung up along a blighted stretch of MacArthur Boulevard in 2021. Tan-colored and not…
This Republican Wants to Extend a Real Estate Tax Break. He Could Be a Big Beneficiary.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Tracey Mann, a right-wing congressman from Kansas, is backing legislation that could directly benefit his own real estate interests in rapidly gentrifying Austin, Texas—a move that could be, in the words of one expert, “a very serious…
This Gorgeous New Super Bowl Stadium Has Devastated Local Renters
The new SoFi stadium.Kirby Lee/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The Super Bowl face-off between the Rams and the Bengals today is expected to bring $500 million to Los Angeles via payments to hotels, bars, and restaurants, and the associated local taxes.…
Will Minneapolis Pass a Law That Helps Renters Buy Their Homes?
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Arianna Anderson had just gone into labor with her fifth child in March 2021 when a bathroom pipe burst. She scrambled to pack for the hospital and, with her husband working out of state, shuttle her young…
The Eviction Moratorium Is Expiring. Yet the Vast Majority of Rental Aid Still Hasn’t Been Spent.
People hold signs during a rally in Boston in June to protest the prospect of mass evictions after a nationwide moratorium expires on Saturday.Elise Amendola/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The Biden administration will allow the nationwide eviction moratorium to expire on…
For Minimum Wage Workers, Rent Is Now Unaffordable in Every County in America
STRF/STAR MAX/IPx/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.There is now not a single state or county in the US where a minimum wage worker on a 40-hour week can afford a two-bedroom home at the fair market rent, according to a report…