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Thanks for bringing attention to the tragic underbelly of gentrification in Miami. At South Florida Voices for Working Families, we have been assisting the residents of Little Farm mobile home park since January and fighting for affordable housing in Miami-Dade for the past 15 years. These most recent evictions are emblematic of the treatment of homeowners in mobile home parks, the only nonsubsidized affordable housing...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Asked to create a mental image of the people most likely to participate in a national rural conference, few would imagine Kendall Bilbrey. And, actually, that’s the point. Bilbrey is originally from southwest Virginia, but now calls Whitesburg, Kentucky home, and serves as the coordinator of the Stay Together Appalachian Youth (STAY) Project . The organization hopes to create an environment in...

Amongst the dozens of people who crammed into a room at the State House to testify about higher education bills Wednesday, one demographic was noticeably absent — students. Still, Natalie Higgins, executive director of the Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts , made sure to speak for students, many of whom were unable to attend because they were in class or working. “This country makes...

The flashbacks came pouring in when Enrique Morones first saw the photo of a young Syrian child who had washed up on a Turkish beach after drowning in the Mediterranean Sea. "I have seen that little boy," he recalled thinking. But Morones, founder of Border Angels, a San Diego-based humanitarian group, was not remembering that specific child, identified as 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi. Instead, Morones said...