Letters From the June 2025 Issue Letters From the June 2025 Issue
Boys don’t cry… A call to action… The war party… Traveling to Cuba… Bill vs. Hill… Burning questions… The best medicine… Correction…
May 13, 2025 / Our Readers
When It Comes to Building New Housing, “Abundance” Is More Like Avoidance When It Comes to Building New Housing, “Abundance” Is More Like Avoidance
Neither Klein and Thompson nor many of their critics on the left offer a robust strategy for actually building affordable homes. Here’s one that has been proven to work.
May 7, 2025 / Mike Gecan
A YIMBY Theory of Power A YIMBY Theory of Power
Pro-housing advocates offer an analysis of class relations that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power than the one held by many critics of the “abundance agenda.”
Apr 28, 2025 / Ned Resnikoff
Trump Is Waging War on the Poor Trump Is Waging War on the Poor
The current crisis builds on decades of neoliberal plunder and economic austerity authored by both conservative and liberal politicians.
Apr 25, 2025 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back
Saving Sinking Homes Saving Sinking Homes
How climate change is escalating a housing crisis in Alaska’s Native villages.
Apr 24, 2025 / Photo Essay / Jess Zhang and Megan Gannon
Want to Understand America’s Housing Crisis? Look to Atlanta. Want to Understand America’s Housing Crisis? Look to Atlanta.
A conversation with Brian Goldstone about There Is No Place for Us, a damning account of a city's failure to address homelessness and how it is a microcosm of the rest of the US.
Apr 1, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Elkind
Welcome to Bozangeles! Welcome to Bozangeles!
The greater Bozeman, Montana, region has become ground zero for rampant luxury development that is taking the “public” out of public lands.
Mar 27, 2025 / Erica Etelson
What Harm Reduction Really Looks Like What Harm Reduction Really Looks Like
Harm reduction advocates are implementing solidarity-based strategies for curbing drug overdoses in Minneapolis.
Feb 17, 2025 / Photo Essay / Tim Evans
“If Not for This, I’d Be Freezing to Death”: The Fight in Providence to Open a Temporary Shelter “If Not for This, I’d Be Freezing to Death”: The Fight in Providence to Open a Temporary Shelter
How a pair of Providence city councilors bucked the mayor—and the trend of homelessness criminalization nationwide—to open an emergency shelter.
Jan 24, 2025 / Thomas Birmingham
(Fossil-)Fueling the California Fires (Fossil-)Fueling the California Fires
Exxon has been knowingly pouring gas on climate problems for decades.
Jan 22, 2025 / OppArt / Peter Kuper