Surveillance technology seen worsening US eviction crisis
Washington DC, USThomson Reuters Foundation Increased use of surveillance technologies by landlords across the United States could worsen a looming eviction crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic, researchers and renters warned on Monday. Speaking on a webinar, tenants and tech experts detailed the use of cameras, facial-recognition scanners and license plate readers, which they said were […]
“FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS”: VULNERABLE US HOMEOWNERS OVERLOOKED AFTER DISASTERS
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
US President Donald Trump’s housing budget leaves poorest out in the cold, advocates say
Thomson Reuters Foundation A decade after the housing bubble burst in the United States, affordable homes are available to as little as 20 per cent of the poorest families that need them in some states, according to a report published by housing advocates on Thursday. That national shortfall, despite showing some recent improvement, is still worse than […]