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Year in Review: The Right to Housing
A key with silver house-shaped keychain next to a red and cream miniature model home on top of a wooden table.

Year in Review: The Right to Housing

Though the home is the center of our lives, housing in the United States is not a right but a privilege for those able to afford it.

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tiny from POOR Magazine on Radical Redistribution
A group of people pose for a picture in front of a mural. The mural says "Homefulness" and shows different scenes of people and folks protesting with signs that read "We are not trash stop sweeping us" and "landback so houseless indigenous people can build homes."

tiny from POOR Magazine on Radical Redistribution

A poor and Indigenous people-led movement is changing how poor people are discussed and empowering their own solutions by centering themselves.

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Moving Past Acknowledgment to Rematriation
View of the Grand Teton Mountain Range in Jackson, Wyoming, during sunset.

Moving Past Acknowledgment to Rematriation

Initiatives like land rematriation aren’t just reparations but a clear way to dismantle white supremacy and center Indigenous communities.

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The Shameful History of Sundown Towns
A drone shot looking down main street of a small town in the midwest during sunset.

The Shameful History of Sundown Towns

Beyond the legal segregation of the Jim Crow South, the U.S. is full of municipalities that were dangerous for Black travelers.

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The MOVE Bombing and the Repatriation of Human Remains
A skeleton encased in a clear display with lights inside a dark room.

The MOVE Bombing and the Repatriation of Human Remains

Like the MOVE bombing victims, museums hold the remains of marginalized communities, often without community support or consent.

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Fighting “Penn-ification” with the People’s Townhomes
Five people from the People's Townhomes stand in a row with their backs turned and right fists in the air. The back of their shirts read "stop displacing Black communities." Red posters on the concrete pillar in front of them say "eviction = murder," "housing is our human right," and "stop the sale" in white ink.

Fighting “Penn-ification” with the People’s Townhomes

West Philly residents from the People’s Townhomes are fighting to maintain accessible housing for families and seniors. 

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What MLK Boulevards Teach Us About Collective Forgetting
A green street sign of MLK boulevard on the corner of a street.

What MLK Boulevards Teach Us About Collective Forgetting

The memorialization of social justices leaders and victims, as in the case of MLK boulevards, is meaningless without systemic change.

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A Water Emergency Downstream from a National Crisis
Nine rows of plastic water bottles that only show the tops are lined up in a checkerboard pattern.

A Water Emergency Downstream from a National Crisis

Nationwide, numerous U.S. cities are dealing with some form of water contamination, lack of drinkable water, and outdated infrastructure, similar to the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi.

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The Cruelty of Hostile Architecture
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The Cruelty of Hostile Architecture

Hostile architecture is an inhumane corporate and governmental response to the unhoused crisis that started in the 1980s. 

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The Cycle of Harm in Over-Policing Black and Brown Communities
The blue light of a police car.

The Cycle of Harm in Over-Policing Black and Brown Communities

The story of Jayland Walker, who was shot over 60 times after a routine traffic stop, underscores how inequitable policing is and how over-policing harms marginalized communities.

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