News and Analysis: Housing

Human Rights Watch lies about Chávez and Venezuela

Answering the slanders

March 21, 2013

Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez Frias has died, and true to form, the establishment press and so-called “human rights” organizations are dusting off all the old slanders and lies.

'Sequester': Fabricated crisis, real suffering

What does it mean for working people?

March 4, 2013

Wall Street and its loyal servants in Washington took their perpetual crisis racket to new heights on March 1 with the beginning of 'sequestration'—across-the-board budget cuts to almost every area of government activity.

Jóvenes que viven en las calles

La crisis capitalista conduce a aumento dramático en jóvenes sin hogar

February 1, 2013

En los Estados Unidos, cada vez más jóvenes se ven obligados a dormir en coches, en la calle, y en refugios porque la crisis económica los deja sin otros recursos.

Bajo el socialismo la vivienda se convierte en un derecho

En el EE.UU, 18 millones de hogares están vacíos mientras que 842.000 no tienen hogar

February 1, 2013

Mientras que las familias que perdieron sus hogares a causa del huracán Sandy en Cuba, ya recibieron nuevas viviendas del gobierno. Los EE.UU. no han decidido todavía en un presupuesto para ayudar a las familias afectadas por el mismo.

The absurdity of capitalist overproduction

A glut of homes in a sea of homelessness

February 1, 2013

Every year in the United States, 3.5 million people experience a period of homelessness, nearly half of them children, according to a 2007 report by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.

The big money behind gentrification

Capitalist real estate schemes drive racist displacement

February 1, 2013

The wave of displacing poor and working-class neighborhoods with relatively affluent ones has gone under the name “urban renewal” or “gentrification.”

Homelessness and the Reagan legacy

How the government radically cut housing subsidies

February 1, 2013

As the phenomenon of homelessness in the United States reaches massive heights, it may be startling to learn that the term “homeless” did not exist in the popular lexicon before the early 1980s.

Young adults sleeping in the streets

Capitalist crisis leads to dramatic increase in homeless youth

February 1, 2013

Across the United States, more and more young people are forced to sleep in cars, on the street and in homeless shelters as the economic crisis leaves them with nowhere else to turn.

Socialism guarantees the right to housing

Under U.S. capitalism, 18 million homes are vacant while 842,000 are homeless.

February 1, 2013

While families in Cuba, who lost their homes because of hurricane Sandy, are now the owners of new homes provided by the government. The U.S. is still deciding on approving a budget to help families affected by it.

United action can stop foreclosures, evictions

The growing movement to occupy homes and make housing a right

February 1, 2013

As a result of the housing boom, there are now 18 million empty homes in the United States. Yet more than 3 million people are homeless and millions more are currently facing eviction and foreclosure.

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