Right To The City Alliance Statement on the Proposed Federal and Local Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Cuts
Right To The City Alliance Statement on the Proposed Federal and Local Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Cuts
March 10, 2017
Across the country, low-income and working-class renters and workers are the bedrock of local economies and communities. The Trump
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3-Call Series on Post-Election Landscape & Strategies
Did you miss the first call? Listen to the recording here. // No pudo asistir a la primera llamada? Haga clic aqui para escuchar a la grabación en inglés (lo sentimos, no logramos grabar la llamada en español).
Los Angeles Housing & Labor Advocates Move Affordable Housing and Local Jobs Ballot Initiative
June 14, 2016
[photo credit” Mariana Huerta Jones]
By Mariana Huerta Jones
The Alliance for Community Transit – Los Angeles (ACT-LA), a citywide alliance of thirty-one housing advocacy and equitable transit organizations, has become a unified force in the movement
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2015 – Building the Renter Nation: Actions, Highlights, and Victories
This year, the Right To The City Alliance propelled its work forward to Remain in, Reclaim and Rebuild our cities, amplifying the cry for “COMMUNITY CONTROL OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS,” “DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT DISPLACEMENT!” and “CITIES FOR PEOPLE, NOT PROFIT!”
One central
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Viewpoint: You Can’t Evict a Movement: Strategies for Housing Justice in the United States
Introduction
This roundtable on housing struggles is Viewpoint’s inaugural “movement inquiry” feature, in which we ask people across the United States to share organizing experiences so that local lessons can be bridged towards more regional, national, and international strategies.
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The Atlantic: Is Gentrification a Human Rights Violation?
by Saki Knafo
No one will be surprised to learn that the campaign to build a national movement against gentrification is being waged out of an office in Brooklyn, New York.
For years, the borough’s name
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SI SE PUEDE! Right to the City goes on delegation from New York City!
Tony Romano, organizing director of the Right to the City Alliance, and Gilda Haas, RTC’s steering committee representative, recently attended a delegation to Spain to learn some of the tactics and strategies of one of the most effective anti-eviction networks
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Tenant Organizing for the Right to the City
by Dawn Phillips
Working class urban dwellers are in crisis. Rising evictions, an aging housing stock that is unsafe and in many cases uninhabitable, rising housing costs and the dramatic displacement of Black and Latino people are all symptoms of
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