Volume 41, Issue 1

Homelessness is a national crisis in the United States. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is no doubt that the nation will face a crisis of evictions and foreclosures, similar to what was seen as a result of the 2008 financial collapse. This, in turn, will lead to an increase in homelessness, which disproportionately impacts communities of color. While moratoria on evictions and foreclosures are good and necessary, they cannot go on indefinitely, and they cannot solve the underlying crisis, which may result in tens of millions of people facing homelessness.

This Article addresses the ongoing epidemic of homelessness in the United States, with a particular focus on the country’s two largest cities: Los Angeles and New York City. Special attention is paid to the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic will likely impact the homelessness crisis. The Article also demonstrates how filing for bankruptcy protection can be beneficial to tenants and homeowners who are facing eviction or foreclosure.

This Note examines the Inuit Circumpolar Council Alaska’s project to achieve Inuit food sovereignty through cooperative agreements between tribal, state, and federal agencies for the co-management of Arctic food resources. The Note employs approaches from political ecology and critical race theory to evaluate risks of Native participation in co-management and identify means to mitigate the colonial tendencies of American law and environmental policy. Ultimately, it offers power sharing and ontological hybridity as criteria for “true co-management,” the form of cooperative resource management that affirms tribal sovereignty. The Notes locates both criteria within the Inuit Circumpolar Council’s framework.