HOUSING JUSTICE
SHOP TO SUPPORTTHE KEY ISSUES
CREATE AFFORDABLE, COMMUNITY-CONTROLLED, SOCIAL HOUSING FOR ALL
DE-COMMODIFY HOUSING AND REGULATE WALL STREET
ENSURE ALL HOMES ARE HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE BY PROMOTING CLIMATE RESILIENCY, CLEAN AND RENEWABLE ENERGY, AND SAFE AND AFFORDABLE WATER SYSTEMS
ENSURE FEDERAL DISASTER RECOVERY EFFORTS ARE FAIR AND EQUITABLE
FIGHT GENTRIFICATION AND PROTECT RENTERS AND MORTGAGE HOLDERS FROM DISPLACEMENT.
FULLY FUND THE LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (LIHEAP) TO HELP FAMILIES PAY FOR RISING ENERGY COSTS.
PROTECT UNHOUSED NEIGHBORS AND OPPOSE LEGISLATION CRIMINALIZING HOMELESSNESS
PROTECT AND EXPAND THE NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST FUND
PROVIDE REPARATIONS FOR CENTURIES OF RACIST HOUSING AND LAND POLICY AND INDIGENOUS LAND THEFT.
STRENGTHEN AND ENFORCE FAIR HOUSING LAW.
THE MERCH
PROCEEDS BENEFIT ORGS FIGHTING FOR HOUSING JUSTICE
"Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homeless, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it."
JORDAN FLAHERTY
DIVE DEEPER + ACT NOW
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
NOTE: Our focus areas are informed by community input. If there is an issue you'd like to see included or would like to share input, please email us at info@the-outrage.com with questions, comments, or concerns on our focus areas. We'd love to hear from you.
This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated Apr 1, 2022.