Alliance for Housing Justice

🏠💡 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

"I thought often about the person I was in 1998, when I was 18, and the person I am now. Despite all the life that we’ve lived since 1998, this man was still not allowed to move past a single mistake. That mistake continued to threaten his and his young child’s stability." Great piece from at The Redress Movement's Cashauna Hill.

🏗 Let's build housing that's affordable to the people who need it most, in places they've historically been locked out of.

Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have introduced new challenges for housing justice advocates. The rulings, including the pivotal Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo which overturned Chevron deference, collectively weaken the power of agencies like HUD and the CFPB. To help housing justice organizers respond effectively, AHJ members analyzed these developments in our explainer, "SCOTUS’ Recent Administrative Law Decisions: What Housing Justice Organizers Need to Know"

“We can’t let profiteers and industry sycophants continue leading housing policy,” Tara Raghuveer said. “Rent caps are not only politically popular but also sound economic policy.”

"'How did these get on the agenda? Organized renters making good trouble,' the Alliance for Housing Justice wrote on social media. In recent months, progressives & tenant organizers have worked to make housing central to the 2024 campaign as renters across the U.S. struggle to make their monthly payments" Good write-up from Common Dreams's Jake Johnson.

“Whether or not RealPage persists through its legal challenges, its existence in the first place points to the broader concern: the perverse incentives introduced into structural functions when social necessities are made subject to the prerogatives of capital. Inevitably, the profits are privatized, the costs socialized." We need #SocialHousing.

“Our disaster safety net in this country has always prioritized property,” Carlos Martin, project director at Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies told Grist. “There’s so many ways that renters are screwed.”

The homelessness crisis is a housing crisis.

For In These Times, Rebecca Burns digs into the anti-homeless far-right and their work promoting cruel, false solutions to homelessness: "At least 100 cities nationwide already have laws on the books prohibiting sleeping or lying down in public space. But in the Cicero Institute’s approach, advocates see something more alarming: a push to defund long-term solutions and instead force municipalities to sweep the housing affordability crisis under the rug through increasingly draconian measures."