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How Homeownership Has Changed in America And Why You Shouldn't Give Up on Buying

Sara Robinson, AlterNet. May 21, 2012.

In one short decade, home ownership has gone from being the Holy Grail of middle-class financial achievement to a very risky financial ball-and-chain.

7 Foreclosure Horror Stories (And One Possible Win)

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. May 9, 2012.

Around the country, families are being tossed out of their homes with astonishing regularity, with local law enforcement enlisted to do the bidding of big banks.

Sending the Sick Into the Streets? How Drug Tests Will Lock Homeless New Yorkers With HIV/AIDS Out of Shelters

Jaron Benjamin, Mike Selick, AlterNet. April 24, 2012.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new policy will require drug screening for homeless people living with HIV/AIDS applying for shelter.

Detroit Union Applies its Radical History to Fighting Foreclosures with Direct Action

Roger Bybee, In These Times. April 22, 2012.

Working closely with local groups and Occupy, United Auto Workers Local 600 has been an integral part of actions that have succeeded in blocking evictions.

Participatory Budgeting Lets New Yorkers Experiment With Economic Democracy

Michelle Chen, In These Times. April 15, 2012.

Unlike the shady fiscal roulette that lawmakers often play with your tax dollars, PB gives ordinary people leverage to direct spending according to their idea of the greater good.

4 Ways the Big Banks are Still Screwing Homeowners — And How They're Fighting Back

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. April 10, 2012.

Here's how the banks are still doing exactly as they please when it comes to homes. But there's hope.

84 Percent of San Francisco Foreclosures Fraudulent--Why are Bankers Still Getting Away with Crimes?

Kai Wright, ColorLines. February 19, 2012.

Someone broke the financial system, and evidence that the break was willful is now piled as high as banking execs’ bonuses.

8 Things You Should Know About the New Lawsuit Against the Banks That Torpedoed the Economy

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. September 6, 2011.

The FHFA filed lawsuits last Friday alleging nearly $200 billion in fraud by the nation's biggest banks. Could this be the beginning of accountability for the banksters?

4 Desperate Ways the Hardest Hit Are Coping with Economic Crisis

Rania Khalek, AlterNet. August 18, 2011.

People have to make difficult choices during tough economic times. Here are four frightening ways people are coping with the ongoing recession.

How Predatory Lenders Are Leaving Veterans Homeless, Broke and In Debt

s.e. smith, AlterNet. August 4, 2011.

Highly decorated veterans die in the streets because America tolerates a financial system that preys on vets.

Make Wall St. Pay for the Catastrophe They Caused: New Bill Would Fine Banks $20,000 for Each Forclosure

Peter Dreier, AlterNet. May 1, 2011.

Wall Street's predatory lending practices are responsible for the mess we're now in. Why make severe cuts to state budgets even as Wall Street keeps making bank?

The Rent's Too Damn High but It's a Problem With an Easy Solution... If Only

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. April 26, 2011.

The banking lobby is pushing back against a modest proposal that would ease the squeeze on renters.

Vision: New Approach Brings US Homeless in from The Cold

Agence France PresseFebruary 9, 2011.

Thousands of people across the US have been moved into permanent housing in recent years as part of a new approach that supporters believe could end homelessness within a decade.

Compounding Housing Burdens in Coastal Alabama: Katrina and the BP Oil Spill

Adren Wilson, AlterNet. October 6, 2010.

The hundreds of Alabama households affected by Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill cannot afford to go another year living in less than dignified conditions.

Free Market Vultures Are Snatching Away the Livelihoods of Minorities in the Inner City

Free Market Vultures Are Snatching Away the Livelihoods of Minorities in the Inner City

Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant. November 17, 2009.

T.A. Frank, a think tank lackey, has a solution to America's housing problem: Ship all the poor black and Hispanic people to abandoned McMansions.

"Clean, Safe and High-Value" Neighborhoods Are Nice Ways of Saying "White" Without Bringing Race into It

Rich Benjamin, Hyperion Books. October 16, 2009.

The law does not forbid segregated or discriminating neighborhoods. It simply forbids intentional discrimination.

Home Prices Creep Up Before Tax Credits Expire; Consumer Confidence Still in the Tank

Home Prices Creep Up Before Tax Credits Expire; Consumer Confidence Still in the Tank

AlterNet September 29, 2009.

New economic indicators suggest we're far from a full recovery.

How Angelina, Bono, Gisele and Madonna Are Destroying the Planet

Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee. July 17, 2009.

The carbon emissions of Bono's band's world tour are equivalent to the waste created by 6,500 average British or Irish people in an entire year.

Michelle Malkin Freaks Out Because the Government Might Help Poor People a Tiny Bit

D. Aristophanes, Sadly, No!. July 3, 2009.

The horror!

Intriguing Plan in Michael Moore's Home Town: Bulldoze the Ghost 'Burbs, Return Them to Nature

Tom Leonard, The Telegraph (UK). June 13, 2009.

Concept of razing post-industrial "rust belt" empty neighborhoods draws interest in Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities.

Not Just Homeowners, But Renters Are Really Getting Screwed

Daniel Fireside, Dollars and Sense. March 19, 2009.

Homeowners aren't the only ones in trouble from foreclosures -- renters, urban neighborhoods, and entire cities are at risk.

The President's $75 Billion Plan to Keep Roofs Over Heads

Staff, AlterNet. February 18, 2009.

"I'm here today to talk about a crisis unlike any we've ever known -- but one that you know very well ... "

Will You Have Roommates for the Rest of Your Life?

Nan Mooney, AlterNet. February 18, 2009.

Thought you'd leave your roommates behind after your career got going? Think again. Social mobility ain't what it used to be.

Resistance to Housing Foreclosures Spreads Across the Land

Ben Ehrenreich, The Nation. January 23, 2009.

Community-based movements to halt the flood of foreclosures have been building across the country. And they're not the usual suspects.

Why I'm Rooting for 3 Big Economic Bubbles

Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. December 26, 2008.

We need a healthcare bubble, an infrastructure bubble and a green bubble right now -- or else the whole thing will pop.

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