The Government Shutdown Expands the Ranks of “Underwater Nation”
By Chuck Collins, Other Words
As the government shutdown drags on, the image of federal workers lining up at food pantries has dramatized just how many workers live financially close to the edge.
Dreams Deferred: How Enriching the 1% Widens the Racial Wealth Divide
By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins, Josh Hoxie, Sabrina Terry, Inequality.org
In light of Dr. King’s pursuit of economic justice, this report highlights how historic racial wealth disparities have been perpetuated and increased by the trend towards extreme inequality in the United States.
Gilded Giving 2018: Top-Heavy Philanthropy and Its Risks to the Independent Sector
By Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery, Josh Hoxie, Inequality.org
What are the risks to the autonomy of the independent nonprofit sector—not to mention our democracy—when a growing amount of philanthropic power is held in fewer hands?
Luxury Real Estate Boom Adds to Risk of Climate Disruption
By Chuck Collins, Inequality.org
In a report I co-authored, Towering Excess, I examine the perils of Boston’s luxury building boom in terms of its impact on inequality, affordable housing, and the increasing risks of illicit funds and money laundering.
How the Ultra-Rich Can Help Fix the Affordable Housing Crisis
By Chuck Collins, YES! magazine
Municipalities should move quickly to enact high-end real estate transfer taxes, requirements for the disclosure of beneficial ownership, and regulations aimed at the disruptive impact absentee owner-investors are having on our cities.
Remembering Grenfell: Who Are Our Cities For?
By Chuck Collins, Inequality.org
This is not the previous generation’s gentrification. The housing crisis in many of our urban areas is not the result of normal real estate market forces. Local gentrification cycles have been “supercharged” by the fact that many cities are now a global destination to park investment capital.
Separate and Unequal: Chuck Collins on How Wealth Divides Us
By Chuck Collins, Megan Wildhood, Inequality.org
Extreme inequality of wealth, income, and opportunity is warping everything we care about. It takes away the sense that we’re all in the same boat. It screws up communities.
Is Inequality in America Irreversible?
By Chuck Collins, Inequality.org
We are living in a time of extreme and extraordinary inequality. There is now a genre of research looking at different dimensions of the income and wealth gap. This body of work chronicles the shapes and facets of inequality and its adverse impact on everything we care about.