Across the United States, we’re in the middle of a brutal housing crisis. We need rent control to get us out of it. jacobin.com/2023/07/rent-c…

In a new book, the L.A. Tenants Union's founders challenge the often deadly societal obligation of paying rent and outline a path toward housing as a human right. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/01/abolis…

Thanks to Waging Nonviolence for publishing my review of this terrific book.

.Fran Quigley: "The Trump real estate fortune was built by hundreds of millions of dollars in government subsidies and huge tax breaks, none of which are available to the working people #Trump is hurting with his current attacks." commondreams.org/opinion/trump-… #UnitedStates

Court proceedings are open to the public, and several other communities across the country, in places like Greensboro, North Carolina; Houston, and Chicago, have court-watching programs, often connected to justice advocacy, writes Fran Quigley commondreams.org/opinion/go-to-…

.Fran Quigley: "The eviction court watchers go beyond the doors of the courtrooms. They take the proximity-provided lessons and use them to advocate with elected officials and the judges themselves." commondreams.org/opinion/go-to-… #UnitedStates

“Court watchers often know more about systemic housing issues than the elected officials they are talking to.” buff.ly/dSRRBRf By Fran Quigley

A significant portion of our nation’s unhoused population are SSI recipients, limited to an income that doesn’t come close to covering the costs of housing, food, transportation, clothing, and other necessities, writes Fran Quigley. commondreams.org/opinion/increa…

Deepening connections between U.S. labor unions and renters has helped spur the creation of tenants unions that are winning concessions across the country, writes Fran Quigley. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/labor-…

As many of our clinic clients can attest, well-trained, dedicated experts who answer to the people instead of some wealthy donors are the gold standard for housing inspection and code enforcement, says Fran Quigley. commondreams.org/opinion/govern…

.Fran Quigley: "The government-harms shtick is just as false today as in Reagan’s time. Study after study shows that government assistance with food, healthcare, and housing makes tangible, positive impacts on people’s lives, from newborns to the elderly." commondreams.org/opinion/govern…

.Fran Quigley: "The film’s core theme is the enormous social cost that comes with the #UnitedStates’ commitment to treating housing as a wealth-building commodity, rather than as an essential need and human right." jacobin.com/2025/06/housin…

In the latest episode of The Indiana Lawyer Podcast, Fran Quigley, a clinical professor of law at IU McKinney, talks about the faults in Indiana's legal system that exasperate an already significant eviction crisis. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/388Snv…

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.Fran Quigley: "Beyond the demonizing and harassment directed to visibly unhoused people, there is another deeply damaging outcome from all this political, media, and advocacy attention: Unhoused families are being ignored." commondreams.org/opinion/homele… #UnitedStates

The suffering we see in eviction court can be traced directly to the lack of enforceable economic rights in the US, says Fran Quigley. commondreams.org/opinion/us-nee…

.Fran Quigley: "The suffering we see in eviction court can be traced directly to the lack of enforceable economic rights in the #UnitedStates." commondreams.org/opinion/us-nee…

.Fran Quigley: "The struggles of US public housing were not inevitable. There are several public housing success stories across the country, thriving communities that have managed to survive institutional neglect." jacobin.com/2025/09/afford… #UnitedStates