(Affordable) House Hunters

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Friday, November 30, 2018

How Chicago Is Making its Own Affordable Housing Crisis Worse by Shelli Nicole Chicago has an innovative new affordable housing ordinance — but residents have to go on a treasure hunt to find it. Read more 'Feel-Good' Holiday Stories Are Actually Just a Symptom of a Crumbling Society by s.e. smith Did you hear the one about coworkers donating their sick days to a colleague with cancer? Read more Missouri Is Denying Parole to People Sentenced as Children by Katie Rose Quandt The Supreme Court said people who were incarcerated as children need to be given a fair chance at parole. Missouri hasn't given them one yet. Read more The Politics of Medicaid Dr. Jamila Michener explains how Medicaid work requirements could end in voter suppression. Plus, Michigan's paid leave and minimum wage rollback, racism in the housing market, and Trump's denial of the climate report. Listen Online Subscribe on iTunes Low-Income People Pay When Government Tech Contracts Sour by Debbie Weingarten It's been hard to get SNAP in Rhode Island since 2016, when the state rolled out a new system riddled with bugs. It cost almost $640 million. Read more In Case You Missed It: Trump's 'Public Charge' Rule Would Radically Change Legal Immigration by Shawn Fremstad From our partner, the Center for American Progress: Proposed changes would skew our immigration system in favor of the wealthy. Read more

What We're Reading

The Grassroots Movement to Transform Our Broken Disaster Relief System. Our disaster response has been falling short, so impacted people are creating a new one. Read more "I Don't Want to Shoot You, Brother." This is a truly stunning story on police and lethal force. Just not the one you might expect. Read more The Cities That Amazon HQ2 Left Behind. Amazon's search for the location of its second headquarters was billed as a chance to transform an American city. Instead, it continued to consolidate power. Read more Death on a Small Farm. An old legislative loophole is blocking investigations into workplace deaths on small farms, even though there were hundreds in a five-year period. Read more Federal prisons were told to improve inmates' access to mental-health care. They've failed miserably. Instead of offering more care, providers are being pressured to under report the need for it. Read more

The Way Home

The newest edition of California Sunday is the magazine's first all-photography issue. It explores the idea of homes, examining where they are, how they're made, and who they're with. The features include photoessays of new apartments, rent strikers, roommates, and the homes people have left behind.

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