Housing

Voters approved proposals to tax the rich, build worker power, and make housing and education more affordable.

The Bay Area is home to some of America’s most frightening inequalities. But ballot measures supporting affordable housing, free college, and voter turnout offer a promising political horizon.

A delegation of New York tenant advocates and legislators traveled to the European city renowned for its livability and social housing system. There, housing is a human right, not a commodity – and it looks good, too.

If the Livable Portland campaign proves successful in November, it will demonstrate the power of local organizing when the federal government is gridlocked.