Ned Resnikoff

1 month ago | dissentmagazine.org | Andrew Elrod |Ned Resnikoff |Brian Callaci |Sandeep Vaheesan

Tenants on the March: An Interview With Cea Weaver “Organizing tenants has the potential to shape the political landscape for decades to come.” ▪ Winter 2025 In many parts of the country, rising rents have hit a political limit, as politicians, unions, and community organizations increasingly recognize the centrality of housing to the cost-of-living crisis.

Jan 13, 2025 | dissentmagazine.org | Ned Resnikoff |Brian Callaci |Sandeep Vaheesan |Michael Brown

Supply and the Housing Crisis: A Debate How do we achieve housing for all? , and ▪ Winter 2025 After decades of relative stagnation, American housing policy is now several years into a period of radical change and experimentation. In California, where I am policy director for the state-level organization California YIMBY (Yes in My Backyard), city planners will often gripe (with, I have to admit, some justification) that state housing law is changing too quickly for them to keep up.

Jan 2, 2025 | msnbc.com | Ned Resnikoff

Jan. 2, 2025, 6:12 PM UTCIt seems only fitting that a year like 2024 should end with one last bleak milestone. Late last week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released the top line numbers from its annual “point-in-time” homeless count, conducted on a single night last January. The headline makes for grim reading: Homelessness appears to have risen by 18% since last year, to the highest level since HUD began collecting this data in 2007.

Oct 23, 2024 | businessinsider.com | Ned Resnikoff

There's a classic joke about two old ladies complaining that a local restaurant has terrible food — and portions that are way too small. You could say something similar about housing in much of the United States: The homes on offer are dull, uninspiring, nearly identical, and in far too short supply. While the cookie-cutter sameness of American abodes and the worrying lack of new construction seem like two distinct issues, they actually go hand in hand.

Oct 8, 2024 | thenation.com | Ned Resnikoff |Piper French |Emma Hager

Can we count on you? In the coming election, the fate of our democracy and fundamental civil rights are on the ballot. The conservative architects of Project 2025 are scheming to institutionalize Donald Trump’s authoritarian vision across all levels of government if he should win. We’ve already seen events that fill us with both dread and cautious optimism—throughout it all, The Nation has been a bulwark against misinformation and an advocate for bold, principled perspectives.