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Inside America’s housing crisis

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  • A person reacts as their possessions are seized during a sweep of an encampment in Los Angeles in January 2021.

    Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps

    Public spending on private sweep contractors is soaring across the state – and unhoused people allege poor treatment
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    Six months after Maui wildfire, 5,000 survivors still stranded: ‘We’re tired of broken promises’

    Red Cross says only a third of households who sought emergency shelter have moved into homes, as governor’s pledge rings hollow
  • A person walks past a homeless encampment on Skid Row in Los Angeles

    ‘Criminal for existing’: US’s unhoused still fear sweeps as supreme court to take on shelter case

    Court could weigh in on whether cities and states can shut down homeless encampments but it could also define what it means to provide shelter
  • Otilia Ortigoza installs a water jug as her mother Maria Lopez-Cerrara looks on at their home in Fresno, California. Ortigoza has to purchase drinking water because the water in her home is undrinkable.

    ‘It smells bad’: the US farmworkers grappling with unsafe water at home

    Many agricultural laborers are parched at home and in the field, which can lead to serious health effects like kidney disease
  • The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, where the Athletics played before a redevelopment fell through and the team’s owner decided to take it to Las Vegas.

    Stadium first, affordable housing later? US developers dangle homes as perk of big construction deals

    Communities bargain for shelter and investment in return for giant real estate projects. But what happens when the deal is done and developers stall?
  • A line of parked RVs and other vehicles on the side of a highway.

    Americans living in their cars are finding refuge in ‘safe parking lots’

    Municipalities and non-profits are establishing secure lots to address the rising number of people who live in cars or RVs
  • An illustration of two men walking north across the Golden Gate Bridge.

    One was a tech VC, the other was unhoused. They forged an unlikely friendship in a deeply unequal city

    Brought together by a Bay Area volunteer program, Nathaniel Todd and Bruce Armstrong found support and solace in each other
  • A poster-size, hand-painted sign with "Lahaina" in red capital letters below a picture of green hills, blue ocean and a rainbow.

    The US promised to return stolen lands to Native Hawaiians a century ago. Most are still waiting

    The Maui wildfires illuminated the ongoing failures of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act
  • A homeless woman pushes her belongings past a row of tents on the streets of Los Angeles, California.

    Why are women in California facing homelessness at an alarming rate?

    Data shows 60,000 unhoused women in the state, among them domestic violence survivors, pregnant women and mothers
  • ‘The American dream of home ownership … was something that I thought was in reach if I wanted it.’

    ‘Never thought I’d be in this situation’: US readers on their housing realities

  • A woman stands in a building with a table, chair, wood beams and two windows.

    The Maui wildfire exacerbated a housing crisis. Can tiny homes and ADUs offer a solution?

  • An encampment with blue and dark green tents against a city backdrop and four people standing or walking in front of it.

    California’s homelessness crisis is the worst in the US. But who is struggling the most?

    Experts say lack of affordable housing in state is the main cause, worsened by expiration of pandemic programs that added shelter
  • A middle-aged Native Hawaiian man in a short-sleeved shirt and beaded necklace looks toward the setting sun, on hand resting on the metal grate of a second-floor balcony, beyond which is a rolling green lawn and, further away, conifers.

    Survivors of deadly Maui blaze face displacement after displacement: ‘I live a nomadic life’

    Four months after the deadliest US wildfire in modern history, thousands of people have yet to find stable housing
  • A constable leads a family down some stairs from their home.

    Evictions can kill: how US communities are trying to break the cycle of violence

    Evictions can be physically dangerous for all parties – but programs can help prevent them or assist evictees in finding other living spaces
  • composite picture of a dollhouse, with a picture of a screaming child in one room, and adults covering their ears in another

    Children are loud. Neighbors get annoyed. What can a family do?

    Sharing walls or floors in apartment buildings means sharing noise, but it doesn’t have to lead to conflict
  • Woman with blue hair holding a hammer and tool kit

    The Trans Handy Ma’am: the home repair TikToker championing renters

    Mercury Stardust makes DIY home repair videos centering renters – and the person who thinks they can’t fix anything
  • A figure of a person holding an apartment key with his face obscured with a question mark.

    Hidden landlords: renters’ woes soar as property owners hide their identities

    Limited liability corporations allow landlords to conceal their identities, which can pose a big problem for tenants
  • Storage unit

    Home, studio, a way to sell abandoned items: the many uses of self-storage

    Priced out of their homes or unable to rent office space, some people in the US live or work in storage units. A few renters explain what they do with their spaces
  • illustration of a house with scenes of happy family life and then belongings outside and a sad person carrying them away

    Fifty-three and couch surfing: when divorce forces a hunt for new housing

    It often takes two incomes to make rent in the US, which is why a separation can push ex-partners into unusual arrangements
  • Adrienne Parks's Airbnb listing in New Orleans

    ‘A spirit in each room’: ScareBnBs rise in popularity as renters seek out the supernatural

    Vacationers are increasingly looking for short-term rentals that may be haunted on online platforms like Airbnb and VRBO
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