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The Criminalization of Poverty Is Creating a More Violent World The Criminalization of Poverty Is Creating a More Violent World
Our faith traditions and constitutional values are clear that it is cruel and unusual punishment to treat the homeless the way we do in the United States.
May 22, 2024 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes
![Urban Surveillance Is More Menacing Than Ever](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/surveillance-148KB-ss.jpg)
Urban Surveillance Is More Menacing Than Ever Urban Surveillance Is More Menacing Than Ever
Cameras aren’t just monitoring us in public—now they’re actually yelling at us.
Feb 16, 2024 / Column / Kate Wagner
![A homeless encampment of tents neatly sit underneath the I-5 freeway in Sacramento, Calif., on Sunday, April 3, 2022.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/california-encampment-getty.jpg)
Fed Up With the Homelessness Crisis, the Sacramento County DA Sues the City Fed Up With the Homelessness Crisis, the Sacramento County DA Sues the City
Can DA Thien Ho’s lawsuit force cities to more effectively confront a growing humanitarian catastrophe?
Sep 22, 2023 / Left Coast / Sasha Abramsky
![Hundreds of demonstrators hold banners in Washington Square Park in New York City on May 5, 2023. Charges were called against the former US Marine who choked a homeless man, Jordan Neely, to death on the subway.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ny-protest-getty.jpg)
Why the Right Is Winning Its War on Unhoused People Why the Right Is Winning Its War on Unhoused People
Americans’ attitude toward people sleeping on the street has become angrier, crueler, and more overtly violent. Blame a right-wing propaganda campaign.
Aug 24, 2023 / Ned Resnikoff
![Visitors, employees, and future residents stand at the topping-out ceremony for a residential building in Frankfurt, Germany.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/communal-residence-frankfurt-ap.jpg)
Living Communally Can Make Us Less Lonely Living Communally Can Make Us Less Lonely
We’ve been convinced that single-family houses on our own plots of land or isolated flats in towers signal success. Yet, for many of us, these habitats prove far from ideal.
Jun 28, 2023 / Kristen R. Ghodsee
![How Freddie Mac Helps Private Equity Profit From Tenant Misery](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GOSFIELD-Markey-investors-ftr.jpg)
How Freddie Mac Helps Private Equity Profit From Tenant Misery How Freddie Mac Helps Private Equity Profit From Tenant Misery
Overloaded with debt, with maintenance and repairs cut back to the bone, tenants are being bled dry to make millions for speculators—with a crucial assist from the Federal Home Loa...
Jun 13, 2023 / Feature / Eileen Markey
![Dwindling Water Supply Forces Cities Like Phoenix To Make Hard Choices](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GettyImages-1496851943.jpg)
Climate Change Could Devastate Life in the West Climate Change Could Devastate Life in the West
In a region with an expanding population, environmental calamity poses even greater challenges to housing and quality of life.
Jun 9, 2023 / Left Coast / Sasha Abramsky
![A New Orleans family travels to their home near New Orleans, La., after it was flooded during Hurricane Ida on September 13, 2021.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/new-orleans.jpg)
On a Rapidly Warming Planet, Home Is a Luxury On a Rapidly Warming Planet, Home Is a Luxury
The importance of place and the draw of home is at odds with the future we have created for our planet.
Jun 8, 2023 / Jane Braxton Little
![A screenshot from a report about the debate over emergency housing in Vermont on May 10, 2023.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Screen-Shot-2023-05-31-at-4.20.31-PM.jpg)
I Was Vermont’s Democratic Nominee for Governor. I Have A Grave Warning for My Party. I Was Vermont’s Democratic Nominee for Governor. I Have A Grave Warning for My Party.
I am publicly pleading with the party that chose me as its standard-bearer to reverse a decision that will turbocharge our state's homelessness crisis.
Jun 1, 2023 / Brenda Siegel
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Homeless Homicides Are On the Rise Homeless Homicides Are On the Rise
The rising number of unhoused people being murdered in the United States is a grim and urgent reminder of our country's housing crisis.
Mar 23, 2023 / Interactive / Thacher Schmid