Thousands Rise for Community-Led Solutions to Climate Justice in Historic Solidarity to Solutions #Sol2Sol Summit
San Francisco, September 8th-14th 2018
By Anamika Jain
From September 8th-14th, 2018, over 1000 members from the four It Takes Roots alliances (Right To The City, Climate Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, Grassroots Global Justice) convened in San Francisco,
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Field & Funder Convening explores strategies to resource movement building, organizing and transformative solutions to the US Housing Crisis.
Field & Funder Convening explores strategies to resource movement building, organizing and transformative solutions to the US Housing Crisis.
By Right To The City Alliance & Neighborhood Funders Group
Last month, from July 18th – July 20th, in Atlanta, Georgia
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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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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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Washington Post: 5 Myths About Public Housing
Original article posted in the Washington Post
David Simon’s recent HBO miniseries “Show Me a Hero” has drawn attention to the history of one of the most misunderstood parts of American urban life: public housing. Many observers across the political
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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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We Can’t Win a Right To The City Unless #Black Lives Matter
Wall Street, the financial center of the most powerful city in the world, was built and maintained through slave labor. The massive profiteering of big banks and private equity firms that prevails, rides on the backs of black and
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