Cville Low-Income Housing Coalition

Community members and organizations advocating for #affordablehousing for low-income #Charlottesville residents. Tweets on local and national housing issues.

[Cville Low-Income Housing Coalition @CLIHC_Cville]

We believe #housingequity is #racialjustice, multi-family housing works, deeply #affordablehousing is crucial, #homeownership is possible & #Cville is for ALL! We need the new Comprehensive Plan to reflect our values. Get your sign here: https://t.co/cneApuH34n #Cville4Everyone

[Cville Low-Income Housing Coalition @CLIHC_Cville]

Please share your voice to support #racialequity and #affordablehousing in the new #Charlottesville land use map. Sign our letter to the planning committee today: https://t.co/EwUckjBgdi

[Michael Payne @MPayneCville]

This is a really good interview with @KeeangaYamahtta about housing policy

One of her big points: it’s naive to expect that market solutions will solve the affordable housing crisis

[@[email protected] @LyleSollaYates]

Interesting live thread on the battle to keep Maryland's DC suburban schools segregated by race and income.

[NPR @NPR]

A new study suggests that raising the minimum wage may lower the suicide rate — and that doing so might have saved tens of thousands of people from dying by suicide in the last quarter century.
https://t.co/fVjQHpcKFl

[Cville Low-Income Housing Coalition @CLIHC_Cville]

“The hardship caused by #eviction is agonizing for the hundreds of thousands of American families evicted every year—and it’s damaging to our communities.” More than 2 million evictions are filed across the US each year. #housing #affordablehousing
https://t.co/dMxeJALdAs

[Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin]

This is unreal. Neighbors are suing to block Rachel’s Haven -apartments for people with developmental disabilities - from being built in their neighborhood. Welcome to our progressive town. https://t.co/WSFzYaRyc8

[Housing Matters @Housing360]

Study found that Black women living in highly segregated neighborhoods were 40% more likely to be obese than women living in neighborhoods with low levels of poverty https://t.co/re13NtF8Ke

[Bloomberg CityLab @CityLab]

"Teens are already urban planners if they grow up in a city. They know what works and what doesn't." #citylabarchive
https://t.co/KfX8cpVhmT

[Housing Matters @Housing360]

Is there a connection between housing discrimination & health? A recent study by @rmehdipa & coauthors shines a light on the relationship: https://t.co/4GqXUonk1B

[Shelterforce @Shelterforce]

A lot of attention is focused on the urban housing crisis, yet lack of housing, rising rents, #displacement, and homelessness are #rural issues too. @CorianneScally and Amanda Gold of @urbaninstitute give us a closer look at the issue: https://t.co/38aLJKe40V

[Spotlight on Poverty @povertynews]

7.8 million #lowincome renters spend 50% of their income on rent & utilities. The story of #Atlanta resident Cokethia Goodman highlights the difficulties of rising #housinginsecuirty in the U.S. & how everyday Americans are left behind in a growing economy.https://t.co/rIw6l57V6C

[Cville Low-Income Housing Coalition @CLIHC_Cville]

Also: https://t.co/A0oAeezcrW

[Cville Low-Income Housing Coalition @CLIHC_Cville]

Thanks to all who came out to advocate for #Southwood rezoning last night at the @AlbemarleCounty Board of Supervisors meeting. This is a huge step forward for #affordablehousing in an important project that empowers low income communities. Great work #Charlottesville!

[Cville Low-Income Housing Coalition @CLIHC_Cville]

For a play by play of the evening, read the threads of @socialistdogmom and @amihatt.

[The Daily Progress @DailyProgress]

BREAKING: The first phase of Southwood's redevelopment has been passed unanimously by Albemarle supervisors.
https://t.co/XyWBtfHpqM

[molly conger @socialistdogmom]

surprisingly, randolph makes the motion to approve the rezoning. and it passes unanimously to a loud round of applause and cheers from the gallery. after 4.5 hours, there are still 100+ people here.

[molly conger @socialistdogmom]

back at the albemarle county office building tonight for the county board of supervisors vote on the southwood rezoning. another packed house!

[David Dudley @dccdudley]

Generations ago, Sears offered mail-order house kits; 21st century mega-retailer Amazon could revive that model for a new era's housing needs, argues @mnolangray. https://t.co/MrbakA50AK

[Holsinger Studio Portrait Project @HolsingerPhotos]

In Rufus Holsinger's Charlottesville portraits, we see men and women who have refused to be defined by their oppression. To call upon him to make a portrait that showed them as they wished to be seen was to engage in a small but significant act of self-determination.