Housing
Wildcat Strike at UCSC Enters Second Week
The graduate students of the University of California, Santa Cruz are teaching an end-of-semester lesson on the art of the wild-cat strike by fighting the boss and the union bureaucracy. Not a grade will be submitted until the university submits to giving the graduate students what they deserve.
James Dennis Hoff
December 16, 2019How Would Lenin Solve the Housing Crisis?
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have both presented ambitious plans to solve the housing crisis in the U.S. They want to introduce rent controls and spend trillions on public housing. But, since they both believe in the free market, they intend to leave housing in the hands of private landlords. How would revolutionary socialists solve the housing crisis?
Nathaniel Flakin
December 2, 2019Gentrification and Capital’s Co-Option of American Cities
In ‘How to Kill A City’ Peter Moskowitz examines the process of gentrification as it has transformed New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York.
Emma Vignola
October 11, 2017Elizabeth Warren Supports Ben Carson as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
On Tuesday, Senator Elizabeth Warren (Democrat- MA) supported Ben Carson’s nomination as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Ben Carson not only has no experience in the field of housing, but has explicitly come out against the Fair Housing Act and may not even support a bare minimum wage.
Left Voice
January 24, 2017Hundreds of anti-poverty activists march for housing in Toronto
Toronto- Hundreds of anti-poverty activists answered the call of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) to march for social housing and to protest the estimated $2.2 Billion CAD spent on the Pan American Games.
Rob Lyons
July 21, 2015