Teen Vogue? Really?

The response to this crisis has made it even more clear that party politics are a sham, and the real political affinity lies within class and race. While we’re working to abolish the police, we must also work to dismantle what the police were put here to protect: property. What is more evident of the legacy of settler colonialism and its violence than the idea of the ownership of land? What helped shape the unequal distribution of wealth and enduring segregation of our cities quite like centuries of racist property laws?

As millions of people, particularly Black and Latinx Americans, are on the verge of eviction, it is time that we look at the idea of private housing and the role it plays in maintaining economic violence in those communities.

The pandemic didn’t create this housing crisis, but it did further expose the cruelty of payment-based housing. Wages that have remained stagnant while rent prices ballooned, especially over the last two decades, have meant millions of Americans have been living one disaster away from being unable to afford their rent. According to Apartment List, 36% of American renters did not make full on-time rent payments for July, and in places like Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where moratorium on evictions have already ended, roughly 1,200 Black and Latinx households have seen eviction filings...