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With Bills Due April 1, More Than 400,000 Demand Congress Freeze All Rent, Mortgage, and Utility Payments

Geri Andre-Major helps her son Max, 5, with his school work on March 26, 2020 in Mount Vernon, New York. Andre-Major said she was furloughed as a pre-school teacher at Chelsea Piers Connecticut on March 13.

Progressive Lawmakers Demand Nationwide Moratorium on 'Cruel and Dangerous' Evictions Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Evicting families puts their health at risk, imposes trauma on and disrupts the education of their children, and exacerbates the risk of outbreak in their communities," said Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and other lawmakers.

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Warren Slams Bloomberg for Blaming 2008 Financial Meltdown On End of Redlining Policy

Julia Conley, staff writer

"We need to confront the shameful legacy of discrimination, not lie about it...

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Not 'Free Stuff,' But Public Goods: Ocasio-Cortez Denounces Neoliberal Talking Points on Publicly-Funded Education and Housing

Julia Conley, staff writer

"I never want to hear the term 'free stuff' ever again."

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)

Omar's $1.2 Trillion 'Homes for All Act' Heralded as Ambitious Addition to Green New Deal Framework

To Solve Multiple Crises at Once, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Unveil 'Green New Deal for Public Housing'

Progressives Declare Victories in San Francisco District Attorney and Seattle City Council Races

People wait to be rescued from their flooded homes

As Climate Crisis Threatens to Put More Homes 'Literally Underwater,' Study Warns Big Banks Offloading Risky Mortgages Onto Taxpayers

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)

'A Just Society': Ocasio-Cortez Unveils Legislative Package to Tackle American Poverty and Inequality

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Day After Trump Denigrates Homeless, Sanders Unveils $2.5 Trillion #HousingForAll Plan to Address Crisis

'Internment Camps for the Homeless': Housing Advocates Horrified by Trump Push for 'Crackdown' on CA Homelessness

'Shameful': Warren Warns Trump Plan to Privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Would Make Housing Crisis Worse

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As New Studies Shed Light on Struggles of Trans People in US, Expert Highlights Trump's Attacks

To Keep Public Housing From Becoming 'Panopticon of Automated Face Scanning,' Democrats Push Facial Recognition Ban

'A National Disgrace': Minimum Wage Workers Can't Afford Two-Bedroom Apartment In Any State or City in the US

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Decrying Policies That Serve the Powerful, Ocasio-Cortez Demands Housing Be 'Legislated as a Human Right'

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Center for Biological Diversity

In Coronavirus Crisis, 575 Groups Urge Halt to Electricity, Water Shutoffs

People's Action

People’s Action and National Allies Demand Federal Housing Action During Coronavirus Crisis

350 Action

350 Action Endorses “Public Housing Green New Deal Act” Introduced by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Sanders

Sunrise Movement

Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders Kick Off Green New Deal Legislative Blitz With Public Housing Bill

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

Add Inflation Inequality to Why the US Needs to Update the Poverty Measure

Center for Popular Democracy

"A Just Society" Sets the Standard for Housing Justice...

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Josue De Luna Navarro

If You Think Coronavirus Profiteering Is Bad, Wait Till the Climate Heats Up

Josh Bivens

Coronavirus Shock Will Likely Claim 3 Million Jobs By Summer

Simon Springer

Toilet Paper Wars and the Shithouse of Capitalism

Hadass Silver, Mary Summers

10 Reasons Sex Will Be Better With Bernie

Cathy Crowe

Canada's Brutal Decade of Homelessness

Nicole Braun

We Need a New Deal for Housing

Shawn Fremstad

Inflation Inequality and the Poverty Measure

Jackie Smith

Corporate Influence Threatens Human Rights in Communities Nationwide

Robert Reich

Trump's Economy Leaves Working People Behind. Here Are the Receipts.

Linda Armitage

We Need a Homes Guarantee. Now