This is not a coincidence; housing issues are racial justice issues.
And to be clear, we have never pursued a public policy audacious or bold enough to close or reverse that gap, correct?
There are children that are coughing up blood in their public housing facilities because they are being poisoned by lead...
Research has clearly communicated that segregated, concentrated poverty has long-term, devastating effects on the health...
I would simply like to say that housing is not just an ability to sleep somewhere. It is the ability to be safe, the abi...
This legislation that I am putting forward along with my colleagues is literally just to recognize poverty in America.
The idea and this metaphor of a bootstrap started off as a joke because it is a physical impossibility to lift yourself ...
We are not doing enough by our own people in a democracy that is supposed to be by the people and for the people.
the official poverty measure is largely based on 1950's, family arrangements, and spending patterns
I commend my colleague, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, on her legislation, Recognizing Poverty Act, that tackles the inade...
40 million Americans live in what the government recognizes as poverty.