housing
Canada: Trudeau government has money for pipelines, but not for indigenous housing
August 23, 2019Nunavut has a waiting list of 5,000 people for public housing; with existing money, it will take 60 years to house them.
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Trump housing proposal on mixed status families could evict 55,000 kids
July 29, 2019A proposed rule would strip housing benefits from U.S. citizens if they’re found to have family members with the wrong immigration status.
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Berliners win a few battles in their fight for affordable housing
July 29, 2019One tenant says public control “might be the only way that people can afford to be able to live here.”
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Capitalist charity can’t solve homelessness or any other social problem
May 10, 2019As long as we give capitalists power to claim they’re the ones making things better, they’ll preserve the status quo in housing and every other facet of public policy.
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Despite internal differences, Germany’s Die Linke struggles for unity against the right
April 19, 2019In a party of many ideological groupings, the Communist Platform is trying to stake out strong left-wing positions while also preserving unity.
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