To improve conditions and lower prices, tenants should start withholding rent.

Tenants often lack protections like maximum temperature regulations, and can even be barred from installing air conditioners themselves. As the world warms, that’s increasingly dangerous.

Rather than litigate everyone’s perception of the economy, President Biden should pick some big fights with the crooks who are holding back the boom.

New York City landlords have petitioned the high court to repeal the laws that have benefited the city’s tenants for generations.

Landlords have one of their own in the state legislature. She and her allies are looking to stick it to renters.

Indoor air pollution should be a tenants’ rights matter, not a culture war among well-off homeowners.

The long-predicted nationwide wave of lockouts is finally cresting. A report from New York City housing court

Climate resilience efforts tend to focus on homeowners, but tenants are much more vulnerable.

As landlords refuse federal pandemic rental assistance, some places are simply cutting them out of the process.

The latest federal policy, like its predecessors, was written with holes big enough for many housing-insecure renters to fall through. These are the stories from the mess.

Landlords claiming extreme hardship are blaming eviction moratoriums for their troubles. These are misdirections we have to reject while rebuilding from the pandemic.

A Georgia start-up aims to become the Airbnb for temporary shared housing. It calls it a solution to the housing crisis. Former tenants tell a different story.

Leaving essentials like food and shelter to the whims of the market produces an extreme kind of disorganization.

In the face of compounding crises, tenants and housing organizers see an opportunity to pry open the real estate industry’s grip on our cities.