Archive: Housing

• Students’ Role in Fighting Gentrification (Video)

  KI hosted a candid conversation on the individual responsibility and systemic action necessary to fight gentrification, with a particular focus on the role of college students.

  Category: Events Tags: Gentrification, Housing

• Resource from DC OAG: Informal Tenants Are Protected

  The Office of the DC Attorney General just released an important resource in English and Spanish informing DC tenants of their rights during and after the COVID crisis, and confirming that these rights also apply to tenants in informal housing situations (ie, without a written lease) and regardless of their immigration status

  Categories: Immigration and Labor Project, In the News Tags: COVID-19, DC Attorney General, Housing, Tenant Rights

• More Than Money Podcast: Labor Puts Its Assets to Work

  KI Practitioner Fellow Dawn Carpenter has released a special More Than Money podcast episode on Labor Day. More Than Money discusses the values that drive how we engage work and wealth. In this e

  Category: Practitioner Fellows Tags: AFL-CIO, Dawn Carpenter, Housing, Housing Investment Trust, More Than Money, MTM, Podcast, Ted Chandler

• WCP: The Foreclosure Crisis: At the Movies

  The Big Short is a fantastic film that brilliantly depicts the greed and recklessness on Wall Street that led to the Great Recession. Yet as former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann reminds us in this

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: 99 Homes, Economic Policy Institute, Financial Crisis, Great Recession, Homeowners, Housing, John Russo, Marc Dann, Sherry Linkon, the Big Short, Wall Street, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives