Dear Friend,
My team at The New Republic, Sold Short, started the new year with a monthlong series, “Work Sucks.” There were stories of people struggling against unsafe conditions, long hours, and low pay. For others, it was about the absence of work: losing income, health insurance, and the capacity to take care of themselves and their loved ones. All of it fueled our exploration of how work defines, and often limits, our lives; the questions of how we work, why we work, and when we might be able to stop.
In April, we picked up some of those same questions through a different lens with “Rent Sucks,” a conversation about the history and current state of our many housing crises. We covered the rent grind, tenant organizing, the myths of “affordable housing,” and how we can achieve accessible housing for all.
The Enduring Fiction of Affordable Housing
How Housing Activists Took On Philadelphia and Won
How an Upper West Side Hotel Came to Embody the City’s Failure on Homelessness
I’m exceptionally proud of these stories, and I know we couldn’t do them without you. Support like yours ensures we can continue to put out rigorous, uncompromising work—like these series and the equally urgent stories we have planned for the future.
Please help us keep it up—the wide-ranging essays, hard-hitting investigations, and other explorations of how we live—by supporting this team of incredible, independent journalists.
