Affordable housing

Squeezing the Have-Nots Squeezing the Have-Nots

Fitful efforts to rebuild the Gulf Coast unfold against a backdrop of looming economic disaster: rising unemployment and interest rates, misplaced priorities and a recession that w...

Oct 13, 2005 / Editorial / William Greider

GOP Opportunity Zone GOP Opportunity Zone

This is a list of "Pro-Free-Market Ideas for Responding to Hurricane Katrina and High Gas Prices," circulated by the House Republican Study

Sep 23, 2005 / Feature / Naomi Klein

Purging the Poor Purging the Poor

Why are the poorest victims of Hurricane Katrina being kept out of perfectly livable homes?

Sep 22, 2005 / Feature / Naomi Klein

Doing the Math Doing the Math

Here's how we identified more than 11,000 empty, rentable homes in New Orleans:

Sep 20, 2005 / Feature / Naomi Klein

Visionaries Wanted Visionaries Wanted

New homes for those displaced by Hurricane Katrina need not be the penitentiary-style public housing we've come to dread. Bring in architects who know how to create human-scale dwe...

Sep 19, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas von Hoffman

Let the People Rebuild New Orleans Let the People Rebuild New Orleans

Let the evacuees of New Orleans take the lead in determining how the billions of dollars in reconstruction funds are used to rebuild their lives and their city.

Sep 8, 2005 / Column / Naomi Klein

Dorothy Day Dorothy Day

In the final days of Rudy Giuliani's term as mayor of New York, three months after the heroism of 9/11, he quietly approved a politically wired project to build twenty-five mul...

Jul 2, 2003 / Feature / Wayne Barrett and Chris Barrett

Hunting the Predators Hunting the Predators

Outraged at lenders who prey on the poor, activists are striking back.

Jun 27, 2002 / Feature / Bobbi Murray

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