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