🏠💡 Our vision for #SocialHousing is rooted in a powerful, tenant-led movement, guided by the basic idea that housing is for the people who live in it. Today’s system wasn’t designed that way, so we’re building a new one. Learn more about social housing: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ga7vJKcw
Alliance for Housing Justice
Civic and Social Organizations
Building & supporting infrastructure for a grassroots-led movement to win safe, affordable, equitable housing for all.
About us
The Alliance for Housing Justice was formed to address the nation's affordable housing and displacement crisis, advance the rights of tenants, respond to harmful public policy actions, and shift the narrative from housing as a commodity to a human right. Our primary strategy to achieve these goals is building and supporting the infrastructure needed for a powerful, grassroots-led housing justice movement. AHJ is powered by Action Center on Race & the Economy, Center for Popular Democracy, Housing Justice for All NY, Housing Now! CA, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Liberation in a Generation, National Housing Law Project, PolicyLink, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, PowerSwitch Action, Public Advocates, and the Right to the City Alliance.
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https://linkin.bio/aforhj/
External link for Alliance for Housing Justice
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- Civic and Social Organizations
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- 11-50 employees
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- Nonprofit
Updates
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As the crisis roars on, renters across the US are making it clear: Our federal government has a responsibility to protect & empower tenants. “This is a shining example of multiracial, working-class organizing [...] I think it sets a model for what we need to do in terms of tenants’ rights and working-class rights in this country.”
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⚖️⚕️ Researchers at UCLA just found that #RightToCounsel for evictions could prevent 600 preterm & adverse birth outcomes yearly—in NY alone. "These findings suggest that eviction prevention via #RightToCounsel may have benefits that extend beyond the courtroom & across the life-course."
Tenant Right-to-Counsel and Adverse Birth Outcomes in New York, New York
jamanetwork.com
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"We just want to tell tenants across LA, if you get Ellis Act paperwork that is not the end...You have the right to apply for a 1-year extension. And beyond that, if you organize with your neighbors, if you fight, if you struggle, you can stay in your homes," said David Albright with the LA Tenants Union.
South LA tenants demand city intervention over Ellis Act evictions
foxla.com
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"Private Equity Stakeholder Project has identified more than 5,100 apartment complexes owned by more than 30 private equity companies in America, totaling almost 1.4 million units."
Senators take aim at big private equity landlords as rents soar
nbcnews.com
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🔑 “With what we did here it proves that there’s a need for a tenants union & we can get results with unifying"
New Haven expands tenant protections, landlord fines
ctpublic.org
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NEW PAPER: The evidence is clear — high housing costs are behind skyrocketing homelessness, and #SocialHousing is the best long-term solution 👇 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gudrYsnd
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On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we recommit to prioritizing those most directly impacted by the #HousingCrisis. That means our housing challenges can't be solved without addressing the land theft & ongoing displacement of Indigenous peoples built into our housing system.
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Read our new paper on leveraging state and local resources to preserve and expand #SocialHousing at a large scale 👇 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gYa8H-3y