Housing

Oakland: Moms4Housing activists in front of the house they took over and eventually purchased / photo provided by. Claire Herbert.

RESISTING AND RECLAIMING

Amidst growing economic inequality and rising housing costs in the US, more people are rent-burdened, homeless, or living in overcrowded, sub-standard, or unstable conditions. This crisis cleaves along pervasive axes of inequality, disproportionately impacting the well-being of women of color and their children, leading to the feminization of homelessness and other housing problems (Bullock et al. 2020; Desmond 2016).