the rent is too damn high
California's Affordable Housing Crisis Has Critics Asking: Where's Kamala?
The 2020 contender is surprisingly absent on the affordable housing issue given how pressing it is in her home state.
Why I Decided to Stop Paying Rent
What it’s like to risk eviction fighting one of Toronto’s worst landlords.
Housing Vouchers Would Change the Face of Poverty
Pulitzer Prize–winning ethnographer Matthew Desmond believes vouchers could help fight our nation's housing crises.
BC to Tax Foreign Real Estate Investors Several Years Too Late
Investors from outside the country will have to pay an extra 15 percent, but it's not going to do much to help young people find an affordable place.
How to Claim Squatter's Rights to Stop Paying Your Rent
What is America if not a giant squat on someone else's land?
Why Is the Rent So Damn High?
If you live in a big city you're probably spending huge chunks of your paychecks just to keep a roof over your head. Is there any way to fix that?
The 'Cheapest Property in San Francisco' Is a Dilapidated Shack Selling for $350,000
The realtor told me the place is so trashed no bank will finance a mortgage, so that's $350,000 in cash—and people are apparently willing to pay.
The Battle to Save the Businesses That Make New York Unique
Activists say that unless major reforms are made into law, real estate developers will wipe out the city's quirky shops and bars and replace them with chains.
The 'Rent Is Too Damn High' Guy Says He's Being Evicted Because He's Black
He said his eviction "is about me paying low rent. But also because I'm the only negro in the building."
Silicon Valley's Newest Exclusive Clubs Are All About 'Diversity'
Can a couple of $2,500-a-year social clubs help mitigate the tech industry's notorious whiteness and maleness? Probably not, but at least some millionaires seem to know there's a problem.
The Rent Is Too Damn High in Morning Glory's New VIdeo
Punx not dead, but rent-controlled apartments are.