Evictions on the Rise in the City
Eviction rates increased in all boroughs except Manhattan in 2011, but nowhere was the problem as bad as in the Bronx.There were 10,140 evictions carried out in the Bronx in 2011, a 17 percent increase...
View ArticleMayor de Blasio to Spend More on Fighting Homelessness
Mayor de Blasio announced Monday the city will spend $12.3 million more on two programs that provide legal counsel to families facing eviction.The largest group of people in the city's shelter system...
View ArticleWhen Paying the Rent Leads to Poverty and Threats of Eviction
In 2013, 1 in 8 poor renting families nationwide were unable to pay all of their rent, and similar number thought it was likely they would be evicted soon, according to Harvard sociologist Matthew...
View ArticleHomeboy Sandman: Survival of the Freshest, Snap #711 - Throwback
Stones Throw Hip Hop artist Homeboy Sandman remembers when he first decided to take his music full time. When the rhymes don’t cover the rent, the New York emcee finds himself deep in the red and...
View ArticleWhy Tenants Lose When They Go Up Against Landlords in Newark
About 200 people arrive every day in Landlord/Tenant Court in Newark. Some want to tell a judge about the rats, or the mold, or the ceilings falling down, and why they stopped paying rent to force the...
View ArticleLosing ground
In 1996, Eddie Wise, the son of a sharecropper, purchased a farm with a loan from the USDA. Twenty years later, the USDA foreclosed on the property and evicted him. Reveal investigates his claim that...
View ArticleThe Scarlet E
We have an eviction epidemic in this country. We’ve had one for a long time. And in this new four-part series from On the Media, host Brooke Gladstone will seek out the why and the wherefore — in...
View ArticleThe Scarlet E, Part I: Why?
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View ArticleIntroducing: The Scarlet E
Millions of rent-burdened Americans face eviction filings and proceedings every year. On this week’s On the Media, what we think we know, and what we definitely don’t know, about America’s eviction...
View ArticleThe Scarlet E, Part II: 40 Acres
Home is in your heart and in your head, but mostly home is on land — acreage parceled out, clawed at, stolen, denied for decades and decades. First, there was Field Order No. 15, the Union Army’s plan...
View Article40 Acres
President Trump claims to have struck a deal with Mexico to settle a dispute of his own making. On this week’s On the Media, a look at the lives of the people who stand to suffer most. Plus, how the...
View ArticleThe Scarlet E, Part III: Tenants and Landlords
This is episode three in our series, “The Scarlet E: Unmasking America’s Eviction Crisis.” It’s the dollars-and-cents episode, in which we account for what we know and don’t know about those who own...
View ArticleThe Scarlet E, Part IV: Solutions
We have an eviction crisis, which is really just one part of a broader housing affordability crisis. Incomes are too low for rents. Rents are too high for incomes. The barriers to home-buying are...
View ArticleCan Eviction Moratoriums Stop The Bleeding?
From Miami to Massachusetts, from San Francisco to Pittsburgh to New York, housing courts are closing up and marshals are standing down as various eviction moratoriums provide at least one answer to...
View ArticleThe Cost of COVID-19
Can the biggest stimulus in modern U.S. history stave off home foreclosures, save businesses and prevent the worst economic crash since the Great Depression? Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get...
View Article40 Acres
Home is in your heart and in your head, but mostly home is on land — acreage parceled out, clawed at, stolen, denied for decades and decades. First, there was Field Order No. 15, the Union Army’s plan...
View ArticleTeachers and Reopening the Schools; Thursday Morning Politics; Homelessness:...
Coming up on today's show:Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, offers the union's view on how to balance the need to reopen schools against the risks of COVID-19...
View ArticleRent Is Due Tomorrow
Today is July 31st—which means that for many people, rent is due tomorrow. But we know from watching recent data that a lot of people won't be able to pay by that deadline. According to a recent...
View ArticleAmerican Rehab Chapter 8: Shadow Workforce
For decades, work-based rehabs have spread across the country. No one knows how many are out there, so we counted them ourselves. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter...
View ArticleWhat An In-Person Trial Looks Like in a Socially Distanced Brooklyn Housing...
New York City’s housing court is one of the busiest in the nation, with a quarter of a million new filings a year. When the coronavirus pandemic struck in March, the individual housing courts in each...
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