Landlords across the country have been empowered to act as a kind of police force in the name of crime prevention for decades. How? Through local “nuisance property” laws and “crime-free housing” ...

Sonia Rivera, 30, has struggled with homelessness since she was 17, when she said she was kicked out of her family home. In the more than decade since, she has stayed in shelters, transitional housing ...

An eviction in Detroit. Around the country, so-called crime-free housing laws and nuisance property laws have resulted in evictions over kids playing basketball or jumping on a trampoline and because ...

Catherine Lang was evicted from her apartment outside Chicago after the police saw her swerving in traffic and charged her with driving drunk. A jury found her not guilty, but by then it was too late.

The Sunnyside City Council on Monday formally ended its crime-free rental housing program, which has been dormant since a lawsuit challenging it in 2019. Then-Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed the ...

The city of Anoka has repealed rental licensing regulations the U.S. Department of Justice claimed discriminated against tenants with mental illness and put them at risk of eviction for repeatedly ...

Landlords across the country have been empowered to act as a kind of police force in the name of crime prevention for decades. How? Through local “nuisance property” laws and “crime-free housing” ...

A new investigation reveals how in some Illinois cities, a simple 911 call can get renters evicted. An investigation by The New York Times and the Illinois Answers Project shows that many cities in ...