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A world in which people have control over our land, housing, and resources in our communities. One where none of us has to choose between food, medicine, or a roof over our family’s head.
We believe in a future where our neighbors live in peace. Our kids can walk around and play safely, and we all feel proud to live in the place we call home.
Our vision is rooted in the belief that housing is a human right, not a commodity to maximize profit. We believe it is possible to create a just housing system in which everyone has affordable and dignified homes.
Right to the City Alliance (RTTC) emerged in 2007 with a strong and powerful vision to 1) halt the displacement of low-income people, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, LGBTQ communities, and youth of color, and 2) protect and expand affordable housing in tandem with a broader movement to build democratic, just, and sustainable communities.
Since its inception, Right to the City has quickly grown to encompass over 90 community-based racial, economic, gender, and environmental justice organizations located in 26 states and 45 cities. Representing true grassroots power and leadership of the most impacted, RTTC’s member organizations weave together local on-the-ground organizing, policy, and advocacy campaigns to build a robust and unstoppable national movement for inclusive, healthy housing and community development.
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We organize in Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, Arab and people of color communities and build the power of renters and working class homeowners most directly impacted by the housing crisis. We work in restaurants, schools, domestic work and retail stores. We are mothers, fathers, children, and grandparents.
We believe that the communities most directly impacted must lead our movement and that our movement and future will be strongest when the people who have seen and felt the impacts of the crisis first hand are uncovering the strategy and leading the path towards transforming ourselves, our homes, our communities and our world.
Right to the City uses a translocal organizing model and unites with other movement organizations to amplify the power of deeply-rooted local organizing to build the collective power we need to win our transformative vision & goals.
Through translocal committees and regional hubs our members unite to learn from each other, develop shared campaigns, and build movement-powered infrastructure to halt evictions, reclaim land, and win development without displacement & gentrification.
Through local and national political training and deep relationships, RTTC is growing the capacity of local organizations to build power, training a new generation of transformative organizers, and practicing member-led, grassroots democracy through our assembly model to guide our strategy.
