housing

Detroit mayoral candidates pressed on foreclosure crisis

February 12, 2009 By John Rummel

DETROIT — Three of this city’s zip codes are among the nation's top 25 for number of foreclosures. So it's not hard to see why the housing crisis and jobs are pressing concerns as Detroiters prepare...

Advocacy groups fear new wave of homeless

February 11, 2009 By Jonathan Springston

ATLANTA, Georgia, 5 Feb (IPS) - Homeless advocates in the United States say if the new Congress and the Barack Obama administration do nothing, many more low-income people already teetering on the brink could end up...

The Chicago Freedom Movement: Summer 1966

January 18, 2002 By Carolyn Black, Bill Appelhans And Fred Gaboury

The impact of the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement on the decade’s civil rights struggles was as significant as any other campaign of that era. To visit The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change,...