Amee Chew is a senior research analyst at the Center for Popular Democracy, and has a doctorate in American Studies and Ethnicity.
The housing crisis is a calamity that can no longer be ignored. AOC and Bernie Sanders’s newly reintroduced Green New Deal for Public Housing highlights the importance of deeply affordable and generously funded public housing as key to solving this crisis.
Amid the worsening COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, the US government is brokering a $2 billion arms sale to Rodrigo Duterte’s repressive regime. The sale would only pour further fuel on an already dire human rights catastrophe.
Ignore the neoliberal naysayers — rent control is an important tool in our battle for housing justice. We need universal rent control now.