William Kornblum

Jan 22, 2025 | dissentmagazine.org | Peter Dreier |Andrew Elrod |William Kornblum

The Battle Over Los Angeles’s Mansion Tax The Measure ULA campaign shows how a housing-labor coalition can transform the political landscape, even in the face of staunch special interest reaction. ▪ Winter 2025 Carlos Casillas, a fifty-year-old renter in Los Angeles, lives in a 150-square-foot studio apartment in Highland Park, a longtime Latino neighborhood that has been gentrifying. The rent is $1,450 a month. “I had no choice,” he said. “I needed a place to live.

Aug 3, 2023 | dissentmagazine.org | William Kornblum |Kate Aronoff |Mike Konczal |Sarah Jaffe

Homeless in Midtown: The View from Mainchance The face of homelessness in New York City is changing, but the underlying problem remains the same: the failure to build affordable housing. William Kornblum ▪ Spring 2023 The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not to be questioned.         —Maya AngelouAlice M. speaks with some difficulty due to an early childhood brain injury.