Rents, mortgages soar, tighten squeeze on workers’ families

Vol. 87/No. 6 - February 13, 2023

With housing costs rising faster than workers’ wages, those renting apartments or homes are paying on the average 30% of their income for rent, an all-time high. Mortgage rates have doubled in the past year. Underneath these figures is the…


Deadly fires in Philadelphia, NY caused by landlord greed

Vol. 86/No. 4 - January 31, 2022
Funeral Jan. 16 at Islamic Cultural Center for victims of Bronx, New York, apartment building fire. Landlords put maximizing profits ahead of life and conditions of residents.

NEW YORK — Seventeen people perished, including eight children, all from smoke inhalation during a Jan. 9 fire in the 19-story Twin Parks Northeast building in the Bronx. The big-business media immediately laid the blame on a seemingly thoughtless tenant…


Protests hit landlord who killed tenant arguing against eviction

Vol. 85/No. 41 - November 8, 2021
Family, supporters of Leonard Williams Jr. protest Sept. 20 at Washington County Courthouse in Pennsylvania. DA claims his killing by landlord was “justifiable.”

WASHINGTON, Pa. — On Sept. 1, Leonard Wayne Williams Jr, who is African American, a U.S. Air Force veteran and a single father of two, was shot and killed by Quentin Trisler Jr. Trisler is the son of Williams’ landlord.…


Calif. trailer park residents win fight against eviction

Vol. 84/No. 48 - December 7, 2020

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Residents of a trailer park here have been waging a fight to stay in their mobile homes on two fronts — against the callous actions of the California state Department of Housing and Community Development and…


NYC forces homeless workers to turn over ‘savings’

Vol. 83/No. 35 - September 30, 2019

NEW YORK — Officials here have come up with a new schema they claim will help homeless workers dependent on the city’s shelters “transition to permanent housing.” And it has nothing to do with building more homes or organizing workers…