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Housing News Renters insurance doesn’t cover floods, surprising some tenants during climate disasters

National
Written By: Mollie Bryant (NATIONAL) In January, heavy rainfall caused flooding at the Venue on Guadalupe, an apartment complex a half mile from the University of Texas in Austin. Read...

Climate change threatens 41% of rental homes, report says

National
Written By: Mollie Bryant (NATIONAL) Like many communities, Louisville in Jefferson County, Kentucky is racially segregated, despite growing more diverse during the past 30 years. In...

Why some employers are building their own workforce housing

National
Written By: Mollie Bryant (NATIONAL) Many American workers can’t find housing they can afford near their jobs, tying them to lengthy, expensive commutes. Read this story on Streetlight...

Camping ban case to be heard next month in Supreme Court

National
Written By: Mollie Bryant (NATIONAL) Next month, the US Supreme Court will hear a case that could change how some communities police homeless camps. Read this article on Streetlight...

Incarcerated students are eligible for Pell Grants, but higher ed access depends on the prison

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Written By: Mollie Bryant (NATIONAL) Cody Zimmer’s first college courses were in horticulture. Read this story on Streetlight here. At Dick Conner prison in Hominy, Oklahoma, he and...

Evictions and domestic violence cases expected to top legal aid programs’ 2023 caseloads

National
Written By: Mollie Bryant (NATIONAL) Evictions and domestic violence cases are expected to again top legal aid programs’ caseloads when data is in for 2023, according to conversations...

A record number of renters couldn’t afford housing in 2022, a new study finds

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Written By: Mollie Bryant (NATIONAL) A record number of tenants couldn’t afford rent in 2022, according to a new study from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard...

Denials after tenant screenings force renters to pay more for worse housing

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Written By: Mollie Bryant (NATIONAL) As senior managing attorney for the King County Bar Association’s Housing Justice Project in Seattle, Edmund Witter helps renters facing...

Why debt can make it harder to find housing in Oklahoma

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Written By: Mollie Bryant (OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) A third of Oklahomans have a debt in collection, according to a report the Oklahoma Access to Justice Foundation released in...

When subsidized housing isn’t safe, renters struggle to get help from HUD

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Written By: Mollie Bryant (NATIONAL) Since June, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has inspected at least 1,200 HUD-subsidized properties, agency data shows. But...