Tonight's show is close to home: we're talking about your house or apartment. Whether you're paying your landlord or paying the bank, the roof over your head is probably one of your biggest monthly expenses, and the more the financial classes play games with real estate, the more difficult it becomes for working-class people to get and keep safe, affordable housing.
But in organizing there is hope! Tenants in Portland are successfully standing together to make their landlords deal with mold and other unsafe housing conditions. We talk with Cristina Palacios, Coordinator of the Safe Housing Project at Community Alliance of Tenants, about how they're doing it. And for folks facing foreclosure, we get some practical tips from Omar Martinez, Homeownership Program Manager at Hacienda CDC.
- KBOO