Just a Landlord

Backers of a $15 federal wage say it’s a no-brainer if you want to fight poverty. Critics say it’s a blunt instrument that leads to job loss. Even the economists can’t agree! We talk to a bunch of them — and a U.S. Senator — to sort it out, and learn there’s a much bigger […]

Yung Chun and Michal Grinstein-Weiss provide an update on housing hardships under COVID-19 in the United States.

In Detroit, one developer has turned Quonset huts—better known for their use on farms and military bases—into affordable, efficient housing.

Since the end of 2020, the percent of households reporting being behind on rent has dropped considerably. In late December, 18.4 percent of renter households reported being behind on rent, compared with 14.3 percent of renter households in late March. When applying these percentages to the total renter population, this translates to a decrease in […]

The Milwaukee Department of City Development is joining forces with the Community Development Alliance in order to create a hyper-focused plan to address serious housing issues in the city.

Seeking shared public-private agenda. 45% of households are "cost burdened" by housing. More than 55% of renters and 31% of homeowners spend more than 30% of their household income on housing, a level the federal government and other agencies have labeled as “cost burdened.” The city has seen a 12% homeownership decline since 2005 and […]

(Click here to download the entire report.) I bought a home last year in Milwaukee’s Uptown neighborhood. It’s a nice place—one I’ve come to see as quintessentially Milwaukee. Kids walk to the playground at the end of the block. Adults walk to the coffeeshop. The mostly interwar-built houses are sturdily constructed on small lots. Typically, […]

New protections for St. Paul renters are likely to be found unconstitutional, a judge wrote Monday as he ordered the city to stop enforcing its ordinance while a lawsuit is pending. The ordinance, …

A common refrain – “I know a lot of landlords that are like ‘I’m not being a landlord in Illinois anymore, I’m going to other states because of the burdens that are put on the landlord,’ and the net effect of that is that there isn’t affordable housing,” Batinick said. “We need people to want […]

There is a lack of affordable housing in Milwaukee. That’s according to a new report released by the Wisconsin Policy Forum on Wednesday. The report also found that the city is in need of eviction prevention resources.

One organization in Des Moines is in charge of distributing funds through the Emergency Rental Assistance Program in Polk County. They’re not currently taking phone applications, but one source of applications is still streaming in.

Overwhelmed state and local authorities are grappling with how to allocate $25 billion in federal rental relief, leaving many tenants and landlords waiting weeks or months for their share.

Policymakers must protect tenants from records that can effectively banish people from civil society.

With judges ruling against federal eviction ban, pressure mounts on Biden to distribute billions in aid to renters.

In order to design policies that could anticipate and prevent tenants from being evicted, the Eviction Lab analyzed the locations of evictions over time, hoping to detect a meaningful pattern.

With judges ruling against federal eviction ban, pressure mounts on Biden to distribute billions in aid to renters. The year-old federal moratorium — which has now been extended through June 30 — has probably kept hundreds of thousands or millions of people from being evicted from their apartments and homes. More than 10 million Americans […]

Building owners are making deals with struggling businesses. As one put it: “A half a loaf of bread is better than no loaf.”

Atlanta affordable housing landlord Marjy Stagmeier started the Star-C nonprofit and raised 9 million to help 3000 Americans avoid eviction.

A federal program designed to help people avoid eviction by paying their rent is running into an unexpected hurdle: Some landlords are turning down the payment, saying it comes with too many conditions.

Graves says many of her properties have cut services. If a security gate breaks, she says she doesn't have the $5,000 to fix it. The pools and fitness rooms at some of her properties are closed — she can't afford the extra cleaning and staff related to COVID-19. Then she says people who are paying […]

A deadly pandemic is no time to turn families out of their homes.

A federal judge on Wednesday tossed out the federal eviction moratorium, making it easier for landlords to kick out tenants behind in rent. Here are some things you should know.

A rental property manager in Tennessee has sued to block a U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule requiring notice be given to delinquent residential renters about a nationwide eviction ban, saying it runs counter to rulings finding the ban invalid.

As landlords and tenants go broke across the U.S., the next crisis point of the pandemic approaches.

A federal eviction moratorium has been a critical lifeline for thousands of Georgia families, but it has at times come at the cost of other Georgians also living paycheck to paycheck.

Between March 15 and December 31, 2020, across the sites for which we have data, 65 percent fewer eviction cases were filed than would be expected in a typical year. Extrapolating across the coun- try, we estimate that at least 1.55 million fewer eviction cases

Marvia Robinson was dead tired from a week of overnight long-haul trips when she nosed her Greyhound bus into the station in deep predawn darkness. Still, the 63-year-old driver kept a friendly lilt in her voice as she said goodbye to the riders filing past her and stepping off the bus.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a vocal proponent of canceling rent, stands accused of profiting off rent from property she owns.

Three judges just ruled against the CDC eviction ban. But it's taking time to deliver rental assistance, sparking fears of a wave of evictions. Judges in Texas, Ohio, and Tennessee ruled against eviction ban In Texas, U.S. District Judge John Campbell Barker said the CDC ban was unconstitutional. The emergency order issued by the Texas […]

Greg Brown, senior vice president for government affairs for the National Apartment Association, said many of his members have expressed frustration with residents who are unresponsive and don’t show up to court. The latest estimate for outstanding rental debt nationwide is $58 billion, averaging about $6,000 per renter, according to Brown. He said only $0.10 […]

Many rental properties are owned by individuals, not corporations. When rent isn’t paid, the inability to remove problem tenants has placed property owners’ own homes and financial stability in jeopardy. The lack of rental income has created a situation where property owners can’t afford to pay both the rental property mortgage and their own home […]