There are more than 100 response teams nationwide, but experts say more research on their impact is needed.

Canadian Dimension | The financialization of housing is a result of policy choices made by successive federal and provincial governments over decades. The Federal Housing Advocate points to three major policy drivers: the retreat of the welfare state in Canada; the removal of rent control and tenant protections; and financial liberalization and deregulation.

Monthly Review | In this forcefully argued piece, Dae-Han Song presents an overview of the past few decades of U.S. policy on the Korean Peninsula and its continued refusal to engage meaningfully with any peace process between the artificially separated North and South. The article ends with a series of demands that look toward a future of peace on the peninsula.

Venezuelanalysis | The Venezuelan president secured a third term while the US-backed opposition has not recognized the results.

Disconnect | The Little Tech Agenda was crafted to defend the power of tech billionaires

Canadian Dimension | Here’s how bad things have gotten in Canada’s troubled newspaper industry: one bankrupt chain is now being taken over by a chain that is effectively bankrupt. Believe it or not, there is a high-finance method to this madness, but as CD media columnist Marc Edge explains, it takes a vulture capitalist mindset to wrap your brain around it.