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Carson is gone, but we’re still fighting for the right to housing for all - follow us at @aforhj

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The AFFH rule can remove barriers left by generations of exclusionary policy & ensure shared resources are used to build more inclusive communities. Help make sure it lives up to its potential for renters by signing @aforhj petition below. actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
Understanding AFFH: What Is "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing" & How Does It Work? | Alliance...

Understanding AFFH: What Is "Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing" & How Does It Work? | Alliance...

AFFH Update, March 2025: We are disappointed, but not surprised, that the Trump Administration and HUD Secretary Scott Turner have abdicated their responsibility to uphold the law. Affirmatively...

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We're live-tweeting #sotu2023 - we're looking for the President to talk about the housing crisis; to take action to protect tenants, rein in rents and invest in social housing.
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Learn about Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing & why the radical right wants this new Fair Housing rule dead:

Biden's HUD is updating Fair Housing: The new AFFH rule

Trump tried to stop it, but Biden & Marcia Fudge's HUD just announced new rules on removing barriers to Fair Housing. Soon, HUD will officially publish the rule & open it for comments for 60 days.

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While Twitter still exists, we're using its newsletter feature to make it easy to subscribe to ours. Click subscribe & we'll move your address from here to there so we can stay in touch 💗getrevue.co/profile/aforhj
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“Today’s lawsuit plausibly alleges that Lessors of rental units have coordinated to drive rents up to unprecedented levels, exacerbating the nation’s affordable housing crisis” - @JustCatalystLaw👏👏👏 propublica.org/article/realp…
Company That Makes Rent-Setting Software for Apartments Accused of Collusion, Lawsuit Says

Company That Makes Rent-Setting Software for Apartments Accused of Collusion, Lawsuit Says

Texas-based RealPage worked with some of the nation’s largest landlords to create a cartel to raise rents, says a lawsuit filed just days after ProPublica published its investigation into the company.

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NEW: Tenant/Community Opportunity to Purchase Acts (TOPA & COPA) are important tools for realizing housing justice. @PolicyLink is tracking TOPA/COPA policies & campaigns across the country in real-time: 📍policylink.org/topa-copa-map
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Many rent control bans can be traced to the right-wing, Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). More on ALEC's national war on renters from @mdoukmas: chicagoreader.com/news-polit…

The secret history of Illinois’s rent control prohibition - Chicago Reader

How conservatives preempted rent control before the public was ready to talk about it.

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Illinois is one of ~32 states preemptively banning municipalities from democratically enacting rent control. blockclubchicago.org/2022/08…

Chicago Rent Is Spiking — So Tenants Are Forming Unions And Pushing For Rent Control To Stay In...

CHICAGO — Lynn Rye lives in a single-family home on the border of Avondale and Logan Square with five roommates. The squat bungalow is flanked by

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Remnants of racist Real Estate practices are scattered across the US urban landscape. These signs make visible one piece of a housing system built on the ongoing dispossession of Black people in America.
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Tonika Johnson (@tonikagj) profile pictureTonika Johnson@tonikagj25 Jul 2022
To show why #GreaterEnglewood deserves community reparations, I installed SIX more landmarkers of the nearly 600 homes stolen from aspiring Black homeowners with racist land sale contracts in the 1950’s & 60’s. 8 more landmarkers coming soon! inequityforsale.com
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"We have an obligation to reject cutesy, technocratic suggestions from advocates & instead follow the demands of organized tenants. They are the closest to the perils of racial capitalism & [...] closest to the solutions" ☝ @JWashingtonJDU @taraghuveer thenation.com/article/societ…
Does Building Luxury Condos Create More Affordable Housing?

Does Building Luxury Condos Create More Affordable Housing?

Brian Hanlon and Ned Resnikoff write that building market-rate housing lowers prices for everyone while John Washington and Tara Raghuveer argue that the private sector can’t fix itself.

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“Last year I made almost $100k — & I can’t believe this happened to me" All of us are a few bad days away from eviction. The only way to safety is standing in solidarity to say: no more rent raises, evictions, or "recoveries" that leave most behind. washingtonpost.com/business/…
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Stop spending millions blocking tenant protections.
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"Faced with rocketing rents & house prices, the housing crisis can seem inevitable. But it doesn’t have to be this way." 👏 @LeilaniFarha @Make_TheShift bit.ly/3ma9IAk

Here’s how rocketing rents and unaffordable house prices can be fixed | Leilani Farha

We have the chance to guarantee the human right to housing – rather than a real-life game of Monopoly. We must take it, says Leilani Farha, former UN special rapporteur on the right to housing

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"During the Trump years, @HUDgov Sec. Ben Carson slashed the Dept’s budget & shattered morale among career staff, leading to an exodus of 10% of agency personnel." Now is our chance to fix this.
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@aforhj12 Apr 2022
Great list of major steps the Biden admin can & should take right now, from @revolvingdoorDC: “Biden & @SecFudge have an opportunity to act where Congress will not & address a crisis affecting millions of Americans” therevolvingdoorproject.org/…

How Biden’s HUD Can Tackle The Housing Crisis | Revolving Door Project

Even without Congress, advocates say there’s a lot that HUD can do to protect tenants and promote affordable housing.

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Are you following Alliance for Housing Justice? Follow @aforhj today! News, views and what-you-can-do to support 🏘 safe, affordable, equitable #HousingForAll! AHJ is @ourcityRTTC @policylink @LawyersComm @PRRAC_DC @publicadvocates
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@aforhj3 Mar 2022
🔑 7 keys to achieving #HousingJustice 🏠✊ According to over 100 housing justice groups across the US 🧵👇
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A reminder on #WorldHealthDay: housing is healthcare & eviction = death. economist.com/graphic-detail…
America’s eviction moratorium has probably saved thousands of lives

America’s eviction moratorium has probably saved thousands of lives

Policies to prevent a housing crisis also stopped covid-19 infections and deaths

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Ramadan Mubarak! May all who observe enjoy a peaceful and healing Ramadan.
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This week at @nlihc's Policy Forum, @SecFudge affirmed that housing is a *human right*. Fudge is the first sitting HUD leader to affirm this as a "fundamental truth." Now let's make that right a reality for everyone in the country. #takingnotes✍✍✍
picture of HUD secretary marcia fudge with quote overlaid "Justice in housing is everyone realizing the fundamental truth — housing is a human right." "Alliance for Housing Justice" logo in bottom right corner

ALT picture of HUD secretary marcia fudge with quote overlaid "Justice in housing is everyone realizing the fundamental truth — housing is a human right." "Alliance for Housing Justice" logo in bottom right corner

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🔑 7 keys to achieving #HousingJustice 🏠✊ According to over 100 housing justice groups across the US 🧵👇
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Happy #StPatricksDay! Did you know that Irish tenant farmers basically invented the boycott? ☘️ In 1880, amidst eviction threats in the wake of famine, the Irish Land League successfully campaigned to isolate Charles C Boycott, who collected rent for colonial absentee landlords.
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