Archive: Affordable Housing

• WCP: Relocating the Dream: Working-Class History as History and Spectacle

  As affordable urban housing becomes increasingly inaccessible for working-class families, working-class housing can be portrayed as a thing of the past. In Working-Class Perspectives, David Nettleingham investigates the case of the Robin Hood Gardens to illustrate how placing once iconic working-class housing in museums relegates the ideal of affordable housing to the past, rather than a goal for the future.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Affordable Housing, David Nettleingham, History, John Russo, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Predatory Lenders Making American Nightmares From American Dreams

  As if losing their homes during the foreclosure crisis was not cruel enough, working-class families are now being lured by predatory lenders into deceptive rent-to-own contracts. As Wade Rathke expl

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Affordable Housing, Akron, Foreclosure Crisis, Foreclosures, Great Recession, John Russo, Philadelphia, Rent-to-Own Contracts, Sherry Linkon, Wade Rathke, Wall Street, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• ONE DC 10th Anniversary Celebration Event

  Vincent DeLaurentis (SFS '17) is currently interning with ONE DC through the KI Summer Organizing program. Vincent is also a student leader for the 2017 Worker Justice DC alternative break program.

  Categories: Organizing Internship, Student Leaders Tags: Affordable Housing, Angela Davis, Barbara Ransby, ONE DC, Organizing Internship, Racial Justice, Vincent DeLaurentis, WJDC

• WCP: Black Homes Matter: The Fate of Affordable Housing in Pittsburgh

  In so many of our cities, working-class people are being pushed out of their communities. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Nick Coles discusses how gentrification is undermining the stabili

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Affordable Housing, Community Activism, Development, Gentrification, John Russo, Nick Coles, Pittsburg, Revitalization, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives