Brunch Bros Are Just a Symptom

Capitalism has proven itself unable to provide us all with homes — the most basic human need after food and water.

The Soapbox, Issue 33

Mayor Pete’s War on the Homeless

Pete Buttigieg is a charming man who speaks some Norwegian and wears wool socks. He also oversaw a wave of evictions and waged a campaign against South Bend’s homeless.

The Housing Question

We talked to four tenant organizers about how to build working-class movements for housing justice.

The Joys of Home Buying

In case you’ve never tried to buy a home, I should warn you: if you’re not affluent, you’re heading into a world of pain.

Universal Rent Control Now

Ignore the neoliberal naysayers — rent control is an important tool in our battle for housing justice. We need universal rent control now.

How to Solve the Housing Problem

The size of the housing crisis can be daunting, but with a committed political movement and a little bit of state power, it can be confronted.

What You Should Read

You’ll need to lug all these books with you every time you move in search of a cheaper apartment.

The Great American Mortgage Fraud

How banks engaged in systematic forgery to prove ownership of foreclosed homes.

The Lingo

This list won’t make your city any kinder, but it might help you crack its code.

We Need a Green New Deal for Housing

What would a bold left-wing housing plan look like? Let’s build ten million new, public, no-carbon homes in ten years and guarantee housing for all.

The Zone Defense

What we need isn’t exclusionary zoning, inclusionary zoning, upzoning, downzoning, a zoning freeze, or no zoning at all. We need an anticapitalist planning movement.

The Irony of Soviet Modernism

How a 1975 blockbuster satirized the spread of a typical high-rise.

Kreuzberg Against the Machine

How the West Berlin squatter scene produced Germany’s greatest rock band.

Rebuilding the Social City

To solve the housing crisis, we may have to go back to the future.

The Unmaking of the British Working Class

Margaret Thatcher described Right to Buy as ‘one of the most important revolutions of the century.’ She was right. And we’re still living with the consequences.

The Homeownership Trap

Millions have already faced the dark side of the American Dream. Is there a way to stabilize and democratize homeownership?

The Private Equity Press

We should demand a media that covers the lives and struggles of working people — homeless, on the verge of eviction, trying to hang on. And not the glamorous lives of property speculators.

Homeless People Don’t Need an App, They Need a Fucking House

It’s really not complicated. Homeless people need homes. So we should give them homes.

The Zombie-Investor Apocalypse

There’s no use in asking why vacant housing and homelessness exist despite the presence of the super-wealthy. These issues exist directly because of them.

The Cooperative Option

Mutual aid cooperatives in Latin America give us a glimpse of what democratic social housing could look like.

We Once Had the Answers

Sweden’s social democrats managed to solve a housing crisis and build a million homes in less than a decade. Why, then, is the Miljonprogrammet maligned today?

Going Up the Country

The New Left and the “back-to-the-land” movement.

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