Housing Justice
Immediate Actions to Take:
- Urge your Senators to maintain and enact the historic investments in the Build Back Better Act
- Call your reps to increase housing investments
- Volunteer with or support a local community land trust or other organization working to make housing a right, not a commodity
Organizations To Support + Follow:
- Action Center for Race and the Economy
- Alliance for Housing Justice
- Bargaining for the Common Good
- Center for Popular Democracy
- Coalition on Homelessness
- District Alliance for Safe Housing
- East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative
- Homes For All
- Housing Justice for All
- MHAction
- Miriam’s Kitchen
- Moms 4 Housing
- National Housing Law Project
- National Low Income Housing Coalition
- ONE DC
- Partnership for Working Families
- People’s Action
- Philly Homes 4 Youth (PH4Y) Coalition
- PolicyLink
- Race Forward
- Right 2 Survive
- Right to the City Alliance
- South Bay Community Land Trust
- Tenants Together
- Tu Santa Ana
- Working Families Party
Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up:
- Articles —
- Affordable Housing articles — Curbed
- Affordable Housing Forever — Michael Friedrich via NYTimes
- Anti-Homeless Laws Across the U.S. Criminalize Survival — Cassandra Brandt via Foundation Beyond Relief
- Barriers to Housing for Justice-Involved Persons — NLIHC
- Between a Rock and a God Place — Theo Whitcomb via The Baffler
- Community Land Trusts — Grounded Solutions Network
- Elements of the Democratic Economy: Community Land Trust — Jarrid Green via The Next System Project
- Elements of the Democratic Economy: Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives — Jarrid Green via The Next System Project
- Elements of the Democratic Economy: Resident-Owned Communities — Jarrid Green via The Next System Project
- How Gentrification Reproduces Racial Inequality — Jackelyn Hwang and Lei Ding via Work in Progress Sociology
- How Moms 4 Housing Changed Laws and Inspired a Movement — Erin Baldassari and Molly Solomon via KQED
- How the Pandemic Threw Fuel on a Growing Housing Movement — Bryce Covert via The Nation
- Lack of Housing Is Not the Problem — Andrew Lee via Yes! Magazine
- Low-Income Households Deserve Full Funding from LIHEAP — CAP
- NO SAFE PLACE: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities — The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
- Now Is the Time to Take Radical Steps Toward Housing Equity — Chris Tittle via Yes! Magazine
- Preserving the History of People-Powered Housing — UHAB Archives
- Security Deposit Insurance Isn’t the Kind of Housing Support Baltimore Renters Need — Marceline White and Tiffany Ralph via Baltimore Sun
- The Conquest of Bread book, Chapter 6 Dwellings
- The Criminalization of Homelessness: Explained — Bidish Sarma and Jessica Brand via The Appeal
- The Ghosts of Progress: Parasite Parallels Life in Silicon Valley’s Self Proclaimed Capital: San José — Daniel A. Gonzalez via Silicon Valley De-Bug
- The Rise and Fall of New York Public Housing: An Oral History — Luis Ferré-Sadurní via NYTimes
- The Tenants Who Evicted Their Landlord — Matthew Desmond via NYTimes
- Unequal Displacement: Gentrification, Racial Stratification, and Residential Destinations in Philadelphia — Jackelyn Hwang and Lei Ding via American Journal of Sociology
- We Shall Not Be Moved — Audrea Lim via Harper’s Magazine
- When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord — Heather Vogell via ProPublica
- Why Government Housing Vouchers Can Be Difficult to Use — Pam Fessler via NPR
- Books —
- $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by H. Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin
- Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital by Asch + Musgrove
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- Gentrifier by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill
- Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side by Eve L. Ewing
- Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty
- Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
- Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- The Conquest of Bread, Chapter 6 Dwellings by Peter Kropotkin and David Priestland
- Watch + Listen —
- Gentrification Explained — Urban Displacement Project via YouTube
- Nice White Parents — NY Times Podcast
- Pushed Out: Displacement Today and Lasting Impacts — Urban Displacement Project via YouTube
- Residue — Netflix
- SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America — KQED
- The Legacy of Redlining — Urban Displacement Project via YouTube