At a rally outside the offices of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, residents and activists protested the eviction and relocation of hundreds of families from their North Side homes, many of them refugees from the Hmong community. “We talk about ethnic cleansing in Kosovo,” activist Reverend Curtis Herron announced at the rally. “We are talking […]

With urban growth outpacing the construction of new housing in many cities around the world, the shortfalls of affordable and adequate housing in the formal private and public sectors have been widely documented and analyzed. But less well understood are the diverse sets of informal, quasi-legal, and extralegal residential arrangements that fill the gap between […]