CARLOS T. CARTER
For December’s health focus, University of Pittsburgh student Michelle Dougherty highlights the latest research on housing security, including the role of community...
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Marginalized communities suffer unequally from “rent burden.” Rent burden happens when someone spends more than 30% of their income on rent. This hardship...
When tenants and landlords need to resolve a housing dispute, many turn to local organization Just Mediation Pittsburgh (JMP).
JMP supports people and communities in...
In 1976, then-President Gerald Ford delivered the annual “State of the Union Address,” virtually ignoring the plight of African-Americans and Latinos.
That drove Vernon Jordan,...
(NNPA)—“Income inequality” has become the political buzzword of 2014. President Obama, most recently in this week’s State of the Union Address, has made it...
