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February 21, 2024
Kenny Stancil
A Return to Trump’s Housing Policies Would Be a Disaster
The former president made his name as an unscrupulous real estate magnate. So it’s no surprise that he pushed for ideas designed to take from the poor and give to the rich.
January 10, 2022
Eileen Markey
A Bronx Community Bloomed After One Housing Crisis. Can It Survive Another?
In the 1980s, a government program helped Black families buy new homes amid fires and flight. Now that generation is moving south, as the neighborhood faces a new threat: affordability.
April 2, 2021
Tracy Rosenthal
The Enduring Fiction of Affordable Housing
These public-private partnerships skate by on their complexity and branding, but they undermine a future where housing is a right.
December 14, 2020
Morgan Baskin
HUD Deserves Better Than Marcia Fudge
The chronic neglect of the nation’s housing agency continues with Joe Biden’s decision to tap an inexperienced Ohio lawmaker as its leader.
October 18, 2019
Magazine
Kim Kelly
The Freshman Democrat Who’s Making Conservatives Squirm
California’s Katie Porter studied under Elizabeth Warren. Now she’s going viral by schooling Republicans on Capitol Hill.
January 17, 2018
Magazine
Rachel M. Cohen
The Fight for the Suburbs
How a battle over the Fair Housing Act could transform U.S. politics
December 4, 2015
Eve Ewing
Rahm Emanuel’s Next Scandal? Chicago’s Public Housing
As the mayor reels from the Laquan McDonald controversy, he must deal with a housing authority with heavy pockets and empty promises.
April 19, 2010
Andrew Reamer
Budget 2011: More Data for Metros
March 2, 2010
Mark Muro
Stimulus as Policy Lab
February 12, 2010
Sarah Rahman
,
Mark Muro
Budget 2011: Joined-Up Government
February 3, 2010
Jennifer Bradley
Budget 2011: Creating Quality Places
December 10, 2009
Noam Scheiber
Obama's Final Four
May 23, 2005
Jonathan Cohn
Losing Hope
August 9, 1993
Sean Wilentz
Pox Populi
Ross Perot and the corruption of populism.
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