Priced Out
“Priced Out” is an ongoing series about capitalism’s housing and land crisis in the United States, and organizing in response to it.
"Just build more" isn't the solution
By Ben Stegbauer For some reason, honestly beyond me, I have started going to City Council meetings here in Cincinnati. Perhaps I just love pomp and circumstance. In reality I started going because a group of people were trying to get the city to pass a ceasefire resolution for Palestine and I wanted to support. Those conve…
Destroying livability in the United States
Last month we wrote a piece about the housing and livability crisis that much of the United States is experiencing. Some of the coolest parts of that piece were the comments that people left about their own experiences with unaffordable communities, rapidly changing ones, or some other connected phenomenon.
Too expensive to live, or can't live if I stay
By Spirit of Solidarity and Joshua P. Hill Have you ever seen a Ferrari in a rural town of 5,000? Or a modest three-bedroom house going for $1.1 million in a town of 9,000? Or a small city where the average home price is nearly one million dollars? And that’s not just for the big houses, the fancy ones, that’s the average house for sale — that’s how inaccessible it i…