Housing | Solidarity

Right To The City - NYC: Making moves on housing

Submitted by Nate on February 24, 2010 - 1:53pm

Turning luxury condos into truly affordable housing. Undocumented immigrants voting. Living wage economic development.

Videos and Transcripts: Bruce Dixon and Kali Akuno, "Atlanta's Post-Election Reflection"

Submitted by R on December 25, 2009 - 11:04pm

NOTE: Kali Akuno's video and transcript is halfway down the page.

BRUCE DIXON, Managing Editor, Black Agenda Report

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"Informal Settlements" in Durban, South Africa and California, USA

Submitted by Kate G on March 29, 2009 - 10:12am

Durban, South Africa, has since my first visit reminded me--and not only me -- of California. They both have great surfing, beautiful beaches,an amazing climate and a laid-back vibe.

South Africa Journal: SANPAD Conference

Submitted by Kate G on January 9, 2008 - 3:27pm

Last summer, I traveled to South Africa to do some academic research related to health care. To keep myself busy and record my experience, I kept up a private blog for family and friends. Now that Solidarity has its own weblog(!), I'm sharing some of these old posts. I intend to follow up with some more current analysis on South Africa and the themes my trip got me thinking about. This post, is a description of my experience at the SANPAD conference in Durban on June 26th-30th, 2007.

For the last two days, I’ve been attending the SANPAD poverty conference here in Durban. It’s an interesting collection of socialist and other radical intellectuals and more traditional NGO and government types. The first day of the conference was interrupted by protests of dozens of ‘poors’ demanding to be able to confront the deputy mayor, one of the conference’s opening speakers over issues of 1) closure of the Durban port to individual fisherman, 2)police harassment of street vendors 3) sanitation, electricity and water in the informal settlements.

South Africa Journal: We are the Poors! Book Review

Submitted by Kate G on January 7, 2008 - 2:54pm

Last summer, I traveled to South Africa to do some academic research related to health care. To keep myself busy and record my experience, I kept up a private blog for family and friends. Now that Solidarity has its own weblog(!), I'm sharing some of these old posts. I intend to follow up with some more current analysis on South Africa and the themes my trip got me thinking about. This first post is a book review...

Bulldozers set to destroy public housing in New Orleans: Tens of thousands homeless

Submitted by Robert on December 11, 2007 - 11:18pm

Image from New Orleans IndyMedia

Fighting Against the Storm

Submitted by Nate on November 24, 2007 - 1:17am

On Nov. 10th several hundred community members met at historic St. Mary’s Church in Harlem and marched through the public housing complex chanting “Harlem: Not For Sale!” and “Public Housing: Not For Sale!” to Columbia University’s main campus. There, students joined them to protest what some are calling “Hurricane Columbia”, a reference to the struggles against gentrification and population removal in New Orleans. For over four and a half years, a grassroots Coalition to Preserve Community has been leading the charge against the university’s proposed bulldozing and development of 18 acres in Harlem for a new bio-technology / bio-medical research campus. This is a fight about profit, racism, local politicians and community power!