Edinburgh Sometimes you think you’ve heard it all, when really you haven’t heard the half of it yet, which was how I felt yesterday after spending the day working with almost 30 activists from Edinburgh and Glasgow who were trying to plan out how to organize a campaign to push back the recently implemented “bedroom …
Tag: affordable housing
A Work and Time Time Test for Public Housing Tenants
Frankfort Hidden in plain sight in the Obama Administration budget proposal before the U.S. Congress now is a potentially huge and unsettling change in the way that public housing is administered. The budget seems to envision an expanded requirement that living in public housing could require proof of a job and could be time limited. …
Locating Housing for the Poor: Good Intentions, Expediency, and Living with the Consequences
Quito One of the ironic outcomes of recent disasters, whether New Orleans or now New York, is that the public, policy makers, and politicians are finally forced to reckon with where the poor are, and often, where they have put the poor in ways that are hard to escape. In a smaller way this is …