🔑 7 keys to achieving #HousingJustice 🏠✊ According to over 100 housing justice groups across the US 🧵👇

Happy #StPatricksDay! Did you know that Irish tenant farmers basically invented the boycott? ☘️ In 1880, amidst eviction threats in the wake of famine, the Irish Land League successfully campaigned to isolate Charles C Boycott, who collected rent for colonial absentee landlords.

This week at National Low Income Housing Coalition's Policy Forum, Secretary Marcia L. Fudge affirmed that housing is a *human right*. Fudge is the first sitting HUD leader to affirm this as a "fundamental truth." Now let's make that right a reality for everyone in the country. #takingnotes✍✍✍

Ramadan Mubarak! May all who observe enjoy a peaceful and healing Ramadan.

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A reminder on #WorldHealthDay: housing is healthcare & eviction = death. economist.com/graphic-detail…

"During the Trump years, Department of Housing and Urban Development Sec. Ben Carson slashed the Dept’s budget & shattered morale among career staff, leading to an exodus of 10% of agency personnel." Now is our chance to fix this.

"Faced with rocketing rents & house prices, the housing crisis can seem inevitable. But it doesn’t have to be this way." 👏 Leilani Farha 🍉 The Shift bit.ly/3ma9IAk

Stop spending millions blocking tenant protections.

“Last year I made almost $100k — & I can’t believe this happened to me" All of us are a few bad days away from eviction. The only way to safety is standing in solidarity to say: no more rent raises, evictions, or "recoveries" that leave most behind. washingtonpost.com/business/2022/…

"We have an obligation to reject cutesy, technocratic suggestions from advocates & instead follow the demands of organized tenants. They are the closest to the perils of racial capitalism & [...] closest to the solutions" ☝ John Washington Tara Raghuveer thenation.com/article/societ…

Remnants of racist Real Estate practices are scattered across the US urban landscape. These signs make visible one piece of a housing system built on the ongoing dispossession of Black people in America.

Illinois is one of ~32 states preemptively banning municipalities from democratically enacting rent control. blockclubchicago.org/2022/08/01/chi…

Many rent control bans can be traced to the right-wing, Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). More on ALEC's national war on renters from Maya Dukmasova: chicagoreader.com/news-politics/…

NEW: Tenant/Community Opportunity to Purchase Acts (TOPA & COPA) are important tools for realizing housing justice. PolicyLink is tracking TOPA/COPA policies & campaigns across the country in real-time: 📍policylink.org/topa-copa-map

“Today’s lawsuit plausibly alleges that Lessors of rental units have coordinated to drive rents up to unprecedented levels, exacerbating the nation’s affordable housing crisis” - Justice Catalyst Law👏👏👏 propublica.org/article/realpa…

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We're live-tweeting #sotu2023 - we're looking for the President to talk about the housing crisis; to take action to protect tenants, rein in rents and invest in social housing.

The AFFH rule can remove barriers left by generations of exclusionary policy & ensure shared resources are used to build more inclusive communities. Help make sure it lives up to its potential for renters by signing Alliance for Housing Justice petition below. actionnetwork.org/petitions/AFFH