Action St. Louis

About 100 people gathered at Kiener Plaza on Monday evening in remembrance of Massey, who was killed by a sheriff's deputy in her Illinois home earlier this month.

Housing advocates are calling on city officials to help tenants at Fountains at Carondelet, a south St. Louis apartment complex, find new housing since the property has pest, electrical and mold issues.

It’s a familiar rule: People should not spend more than 30% of their income on housing. But for many who rent in St. Louis, that percentage has long been higher.

St. Louis aldermen are planning to bring back a proposal that would provide tenants facing eviction with legal representation.

St. Louis Alderwoman Chistine Ingrassia wants tenants to have lawyers in evictions, a proposal that could cost about $1.6 million a year.

The Ferguson uprising in 2014 was widely tweeted. It gave a voice to people who often have been ignored by traditional media. What happens if the platform goes up in smoke?

People in the St. Louis region are still reeling from the effects of flash flooding last week.

Action St. Louis and Arch City Defenders will host a town hall for renters at 6 p.m. today. Renters from the St. Louis area can speak with housing advocates about housing issues, eviction questions and how to build a tenant-led housing movement in St. Louis.

As Kayla Reed and a new generation of local leaders saw each of their reform efforts fail to curb police violence in the St. Louis area, they soon realized that what they really had to overcome was the police union’s political force in local elections.

It’s been more than six years since Michael Brown’s killing made St. Louis the epicenter of the most promising civil rights movement since the 1960s. Yet despite stacks of studies and seemingly unprecedented public support for change, St. Louis has not seen a single substantive victory for police reform, thanks in large part to an influential police union and a larger police apparatus that has stymied accountability.