‘Good Cause’ tenant protections enacted in 2024 left a big opening for property owners to not renew leases. But do apartment renovations count as demolition?

The Housing Choice Voucher program supports over 2.5 million households by subsidizing rent payments within the private housing market. However, challenges arise due to exclusionary practices, unde...

How do algorithm-driven business models interact with historical patterns of segregation, property devaluation, and racial capitalism? Wonyoung So addresses this question in new research into iBuyers—...

Most housing discrimination claims are handled by local nonprofits around the country. They say the Trump administration has hobbled them, and are challenging the cuts as unlawful.

Lessons from Eviction Court goes behind the disturbing statistics of evictions and homelessness to provide the first-hand experience of a lawyer who is in eviction court each week, standing alongside....

According to the 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the national median wealth was four times higher than the median wealth of a typical Black family.

Disputes over rent are playing out through negative marks on credit reports, rather than in courts.

The complaint, filed in federal court, alleges Mac Properties systemically discriminates against voucher holders looking to rent in Mac’s newer, high-rise apartments in Hyde Park and steers them towar...

Objective To assess the prevalence of patient administrative tasks and whether they are associated with delayed and/or foregone care. Data Source March 2019 Health Reform Monitoring Survey. Stud...

Housing experts say the number of landlords who don’t return security deposits are costing New Yorkers millions of dollars, and that it’s notoriously hard to get the money back.

Over at Crooked Timber, Chris Bertram argues that the root of the problems exposed in this week’s reelection of Donald Trump is nationalism: “The underlying problem is nationalism and t…

A class-action lawsuit filed on Tuesday alleges UnitedHealthcare's algorithm overrode physician recommendations, wrongfully denying coverage under Medicare Advantage policies for stays in extended-care facilities.

Last updated December 3, 10:09 AM South Korea Is Fighting for Democracy Again—And the World Needs to Know Heesoo Jang Assistant Professor of Media Law and Ethics Journalism Department, University of...

USC SOCI 499, Sociology of Housing. Professor Ann Owens. Spring 2024. Week Topics Content 1 1/9 Course Plan Overview: Housing in the United States Pattillo, Mary. 2013. “Housing: Commodity versus Righ...

In 2018, the essay series Data Governance in the Digital Age anticipated some of the data governance issues that have emerged, such as surveillance capitalism and the economics of data, but did not co...

iBuyers are firms that use automated valuation models (AVMs), streamline home buying processes, and provide all-cash offers to purchase homes. Although the previous literature has explored the role...

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In this research article, we employed an autoethnographic data-walk methodology to explore the complex relationship between urban spaces and digital d…