How might social housing transform the land/debt economy of racial capitalism & ensure public investment in housing? How is such a vision shaped by housing justice movements? Join us on Friday, Jan 15 @ 10am PST for this amazing line-up of speakers. RSVP>> bit.ly/38hJ16B

THREAD: Archive: AG Karl A. Racine’s office is planning to appeal a ruling that landlords in DC are allowed to continue filing for evictions, even though they still are not allowed to carry them out until May 31. Today was the deadline to formally challenge it.

We can’t add to Oregon’s homelessness crisis. Our center estimates that downstream costs to respond to evictions could be as high as $3.3 billion. Fully funded rent support costs less & is more humane. Full Report: pdx.edu/homelessness/c… #orpol #orleg #evictions #homelessness

From Matt Gerken & Abby Williams: A recent The Hope Center for Student Basic Needs survey of 195,000+ 2-year & 4-year college students found that about half experienced housing insecurity & about 1 in 7 either experienced homelessness or lacked a stable living situation. urbn.is/2PHuRpa

Good morning! We just informed our management that a supermajority of eligible @UrbanInstitute staff have formed the Urban Institute Employees Union, organized with the NPEU. Read our press release here: npeu.org/news/2021/4/13…

Congratulations to the Urban Institute and Brookings staff for for organizing Urban Institute Employees' Union and Brookings United with NPEU. I hope other workers in nonprofits follow their example and join a union. Now more than ever, we need a strong labor movement for all workers.

Thanks, Joanne Zuhl for handing me a voice recorder and giving me my first field journalism assignment. I owe so much to that experience. It's amazing to see all you have accomplished at Street Roots, congrats!

Affordable housing is infrastructure.

Tenants are putting in the work 💪 to preserve affordable housing The tenant rights we have in DC, including TOPA, were won by tenant organizers like the Buena Vista residents. I covered their plans to form a co-op for Street Sense Media

As the DC Housing Authority moves forward with a multi-year plan to redevelop Greenleaf Gardens and a renewed commitment to "build-first," residents are calling for a bigger role in planning the construction process and in the community’s future: ggwash.org/view/84393/a-r…

The day with the thing 🗳️ - mailchi.mp/730dc/takecare…

WORKERS ON P STREET JUST WON THE FIRST UNION STARBUCKS IN THE NATION’S CAPITOL!

Councilmember Lewis George's Green New Deal for "social housing," or D.C.-owned affordable housing, received major support at a Nov. 22 hearing, suggesting her hope that "D.C. will be one of the first [U.S.] cities to pass a Green New Deal" may be realized.bit.ly/3OL1yfb

🔥Cannabis workers at Potomac Holistics are unionizing! The staff of the Rockville, Md. dispensary are fighting for livable wages, paid time off, job security and a voice in the workplace. ✊ Sign the petition to show your support: ufcw400.org/poho

Come by Chinatown this Sunday and show us some love!

BREAKING: Cannabis workers at Potomac Holistics in Rockville, Md. voted to unionize with UFCW Local 400 today! Welcome to the union fam! 💛 ufcw400.org/2023/01/11/can…

BREAKING: The staff of Solid State Books are unionizing! ✊ This would be the second bookstore to unionize in DC after Politics & Prose Workers Union organized last year! Read the announcement: ufcw400.org/2023/03/28/sol…

giving the people what they want

The staff of Story cannabis dispensary in Mechanicsville, Md. have unionized! These amazing budtenders stuck together through some (frankly pathetic) unionbusting efforts by management and refused to back down. Welcome to the union family! ufcw400.org/2023/10/13/sto…