As part of the national Renter Week of Action, Providence renters gathered in City Hall, outside of Mayor Jorge Elorza’s office on Wednesday, September 20th to protest increasingly unaffordable rents, poor housing conditions, and public subsidies for high-end developers.
| Read more >Imagine, if you will, that you only had to pay the recommended maximum of 30% of your income on rent. For a family earning $100,000, that would be $2,500 a month. Not exactly chump change, to be sure — but still not enough to afford even a median-priced two-bedroom apartment in cities like New...
| Read more >California cities are faced with a challenging housing situation. Wages have hit a plateau or are in some cases decreasing, while rents continue to rise.
| Read more >In her five years renting from notorious Minneapolis slumlord Stephen Frenz and his Apartment Shop LLC, Molly Hasbrook, who is the building captain for her apartment unit, has seen it all. "Lots of ignored maintenance issues, some very major, cockroaches for about three years that weren't...
| Read more >A new analysis points to the benefits of ending the severe affordability crisis.
| Read more >Renters in dozens of U.S. cities are organizing demonstrations this week under the banner of “National Renter Week of Action and Assemblies.” The purpose is to push back against the Trump Administration’s threat to cut billions from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and make the...
| Read more >Renters across the country are staging a week of protests to challenge rent increases, evictions and cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
| Read more >The impact of Los Angeles' postrecession housing crisis became clear in 2014, when a UCLA report found that L.A. is "the most unaffordable rental market" in the United States.
| Read more >As reported Wednesday by Citiscope, a debate continues at the UN regarding whether a new “UN Urban” arm would be helpful to cities in achieving the SDGs or implementing the New Urban Agenda, a document intended to guide national and local policies on the growth and development of cities through...
| Read more >The rising visibility of white supremacy and the failure of presidential leadership regarding it have brought the pervasive role of racism in politics and society into sharp focus.
| Read more >2016 was the first year since Hurricane Katrina that more people left New Orleans than moved in—that has a lot to do with the dismal job market that continues to repel young professionals.
| Read more >"And black workers earned $3 less an hour on average than white workers in Michigan in 2014, according to the National Equity Atlas. While we don’t need to remove symbols representing racial hatred in Lansing and other Michigan cities, disparities in our state between black and white people are...
| Read more >"Rising inequality, stagnant wages, and persistent racial inequities have put the long-term future of the booming Bay Area economy at risk, a report from PolicyLink and the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at the University of Southern California finds."
| Read more >Discussions of racial disparities in Long Island’s social and economic fabric may be uncomfortable, but are necessary to dismantle barriers to equity faced by African-American residents and to support the overall health of Nassau and Suffolk counties, the head of the Urban League of Long Island...
| Read more >"Poverty isn't about your state of mind as much as it is about policy and plunder." -Lincoln Blades. In this op-ed, writer Lincoln Blades explores systems that keep the poor at a disadvantage in the United States.
| Read more >Immigrant integration is an important cultural, political, and economic imperative—NationalEquityAtlas.org offers nativity and ancestry data for your city, region, or state.
| Read more >Most of the schools where students are segregated by, race, class, language, or all three are in cities like Chicago. In February of last year, The Atlantic analyzed recent data from the National Equity Atlas and found that “kids of color represent a majority of the student body in 83 of the 100...
| Read more >USC Professor Manuel Pastor and PolicyLink chief Angela Glover Blackwell provided insights about how California sets the table for a national conversation that invokes a new narrative: equity and inclusion as a superior growth model for our nation’s economy.
| Read more >While Los Angeles County is the ninth most diverse among the hundred and fifty largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., it is the seventh most unequal, a report from PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) finds.
| Read more >Los Angeles ranks seventh in income inequality out of the largest 150 metro regions, according to a study by PolicyLink and USC.
Los Angeles County is among the most economically unequal large metro areas in the country, according to a study released this week by PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environment and Regional Equity.
| Read more >"Across the region, people are struggling daily for the things so many of us take for granted—safe streets, good jobs, access to health care, affordable housing and a quality education for our families," said Fred Ali, president and CEO of the Weingart Foundation. "Over the past several decades,...
| Read more >Los Angeles County ranks seventh in income inequality out of the nation’s 150 largest metro regions, according to a new report. The study from PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environment and Regional Equity, with support from the Weingart Foundation, concludes that this high rate of...
| Read more >A new report released Thursday found widening inequities in income, wealth, health and opportunity in Los Angeles County. The report was developed by PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity and supported by the Weingart Foundation.
| Read more >The National Equity Atlas illustrates that air-pollution exposure in the Asian Pacific Islander population is 34 points worse than it is for the white population in Washington state. The University of Southern California Program for Environmental and Regional Equity report, The Climate Gap,...
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