How to Make Money From Tent Cities
Interests will clash from time to time, as the landlord wants to raise rents and the capitalist does not want to raise wages. It is at those times that we see increases in homelessness.
One way to look at it is that we live inside a machine that makes homeless people. Instead of replacing the machine, we’ve painted a mural on it.
MetcalfE Park Unveils Third Home in Reclaim and Restore Project
Organizers in Metcalfe Park's neighborhood see the potential of the structures that still stand. The project of Reclaim and Restore is a community-driven effort to buy up abandoned homes, and renovate them. When the restoration is complete they are given to resident families who have paid rent in the neighborhood for years through an affordable lease-to-own program.
Build Affordable Housing in the Rubble of I794
The Cream City Routes video does a good job of painting in the lines and imagining a world without a massive, crumbling symbol of racist policies, but there it begs the question: what should we build, and how can we make it for everyone?