The Conversation

Older women often rent in poverty – shared home equity could help

Grattan Institute began with contributions to its endowment of $15 million from each of the Federal and Victorian Governments, $4 million from BHP Billiton, and $1 million from NAB. In order to ...
Center for American Progress

Ending Poverty at Home

House Ways and Means Committee opens discussion about the economic costs of poverty on the heels of a new report from CAP. Tuesday night in his State of the Union address, President Bush talked about ...
Inhabitat

Affordable solar homes are lifting homeowners out of poverty

Carbon-negative, self-financing and scalable are just a few words to describe BillionBricks and Architecture Brio’s PowerHYDE. PowerHyde solar homes are models aiming to help solve both the global ...
The Conversation

One in four homes is ‘hard to decarbonise’ – without help their inhabitants could get stuck in fuel poverty

Professor of Energy Policy, Member of Fuel Poverty Evidence and Trustee of the Fuel Poverty Research Network, Sheffield Hallam University University College London provides funding as a founding ...
NPR

Private opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the rich and hurts the poor

Over 11% of the U.S. population — about one in nine people — lived below the federal poverty line in 2021. But Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says neither that statistic, nor the federal ...