NNPA NEWSWIRE — Forty-five’s hostility to poor people is reflected in reductions in Medicaid, food stamps, and the CHIP program, which provides health care for poor...
If you or somebody you know is interested in real estate development or running shelters for formerly homeless people, now is the time to start paying...
Any day now Anita Miller could become homeless. The 58-year-old single woman, who lives in Long Beach, is just waiting for the county Sheriff to show...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to Steve Benjamin, mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, and a spokesman for the Bloomberg Campaign, “Mike doesn’t just talk about ideas; he...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Nathaniel Jones is a pioneer who has never failed to stand for the rights of people denied a chance to be a part...
Homeless moms who were forcibly evicted from a vacant Oakland house where they lived for two months without permission from the home’s corporate owner, announced on...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — President Trump is taking action to ensure that Black Americans have unparalleled opportunity in the American economy. A major piece of the Tax...
OAKLAND POST — While establishing a fire lane and cleaning a portion of a Home Depot parking lot where around 50 unhoused residents live, on Oct. 22...
OAKLAND POST — Oakland’s Department of Public Works (DPW) and Police Department followed Mayor Libby Schaaf’s city administration’s orders on Tuesday to evict about two dozen homeless...
OAKLAND POST — Presidential candidate Julian Castro visited Oakland on Wednesday Sept. 25. Hosted by Councilman Noel Gallo, Castro was provided a tour of the Fruitvale...
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — As many Memphis residents lament a lack of mayoral debates, BLDG Memphis is taking a different approach to capturing candidates’ policy plans...
On Sept 11, the Oakland Public Works Department plans to destroy about 20 small homes that residents who can’t afford sanctioned housing have built and currently...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Of all the issues confronting Americans, none is more basic than that of housing. Whether renting or owning a home, every family needs...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Although in some respects racial equality has improved in the intervening years,” states the report, “in other respects today’s Black citizens remain sharply...
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Rev. Dr. Earle Fisher thinks that focusing so much attention on the endorsements misses the bigger news story — that for all the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — As a diverse collection of 500-plus Memphians steadily streamed into the Paradise Entertainment Complex on Georgia Avenue, there wasn’t so much a set...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — On Wednesday, July 10, California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced the introduction of their Fair Chance at...
Councilmember Noel Gallo is calling for the city to remove unhoused residents living near Home Depot’s Fruitvale store. Many residents at the encampment, however, claim they...
Bas wins $12 million for Community Land Trust affordable housing fund Voting Tuesday night, the Oakland City Council adopted a two-year, $3.2 billion budget, partially resolving...
After opening three community cabin sites, the City of Oakland is continuing its plan to create more sites and has also laid plans to open RV...
ATLANTA TRIBUNE — Atlanta-based nonprofit Star-C Communities, which bills itself as an education model with an affordable housing solution, has named former Atlanta Board of Education Chair Courtney...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In February, Chairwoman Waters and Congressman Al Green, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, wrote to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Sun-Reporter was founded in 1944 and it quickly became a social and political advocate for African Americans on issues like civil rights,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Systemic racism drives both poverty and the mass incarceration of low-income people, especially people of color. This cycle of poverty and criminal justice...