Madeline Howard

(she/her) housing litigator at Western Center on Law & Poverty, views are my own.

[Tenants Together @TenantsTogether]

📢 New Report Alert! Discover stories and solutions from organizers across the country fighting for permanently and truly affordable, community-controlled housing: https://t.co/32JEjiREcy #SocialHousing

#BuildingOurFuture #HouseEveryOne #HousingJustice #AffordableHousing

[Jeanne Theoharis @JeanneTheoharis]

Friends, please, please amplify. The NYPD are now raiding City College. Reports are hundreds of cops. Please, I know that what happened at Columbia tonight is sickening--but this is Part II. And our @cuny students are largely working class students of color.

[Congresswoman Cori Bush (Archived) @RepCori]

Next month, SCOTUS will consider the Grants Pass v. Johnson case, which could allow cities to criminalize unhoused people.

As a formerly unhoused person, I know that unhoused people need help, NOT fines & jail time. I'll keep fighting for policies that affirm #HousingForAll

[PolicyLink @policylink]

The #NationalEquityAtlas recently released data on the prevalence of involuntary moves among US renters. Visit the Rent Debt Dashboard to see more data.https://t.co/fpk7Cnk5pY.

[Patricia Baker @PatMLRI]

"It's not a fair fight" - TY Annette Duke @MassLawReform for leading the charge! @CivilLegalAid @AJCampbellMA @MassGovernor Mass. officials want lawyers for low-income renters facing eviction https://t.co/rb4389IIS4 via @BostonGlobe

[Housing NOW! @HousingNowCA]

This week #SCOTUS declined to hear a challenge to New York’s rent control system, rejecting 2 appeals alleging that #RentControl was unconstitutional. Housing is a basic human need and one that should be a right! #ACA10 Let’s get and keep everyone housed! https://t.co/92PX9QdiYz

[Eviction Lab @evictionlab]

“The eviction rate for households with children is about twice as high as for households without children present. In all, nearly 3 million kids are on the receiving end of eviction filings every year.”

https://t.co/6gLIjxwveA

By @yneyman + @BrigidSchulte. Via @CNNOpinion

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

BREAKING: Invitation Homes, the nation's largest operator of single-family home rentals will pay $3.7 million to settle allegations it violated California's anti-rent gouging laws affecting 1,900 tenants, @AGRobBonta announced today. https://t.co/LlEESTS6uP

[Natalie Orenstein @nat_orenstein]

Under Oakland's rent control law, landlords can only raise rents by a certain set amount each year. But once a tenant moves out, they can set the new rent at any level they want. Here's how those new rents (new 2023 leases) compare to the overall typical rents.

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

California cities can no longer force landlords to exclude or evict tenants based on their criminal records or brushes with police under a new law #AB1418. The law ends local crime-free housing rules that a recent study found ineffective and discriminatory https://t.co/4IQlRGoYWs

[Vanessa Rancaño @vanessarancano]

What I learned about the connection between rising utility costs and housing instability while reporting this story is seriously disturbing. Here are my takeaways: https://t.co/vCUssP3ZNt

[Keep LA Housed @KeepLAHoused]

When Covid hit households, tenants fell behind on rent owe thousands in rent dent. We have another repayment deadline coming up on February 1st and if city leaders fails to act, we’ll see a surge in evictions. @LACityCouncil @MayorOfLA to Cancel the Debt to #KeepLAHoused

[Mathilde Lind Gustavussen @m_gustavussen]

I have a new piece out for @jacobin about the Tenant Power Toolkit from @StrikeDebt @LATenantsUnion @antievictionmap @CalOrganize and how it can help turn evictions and rent debt into leverage https://t.co/7KxBl4TSma

[Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights SF @lccrsf]

"Valdéz said her nonprofit is told not to track the number of people they turn away, effectively keeping many homeless families invisible to city leaders."

https://t.co/yXA6gu5ngu

[Alex Ramiller @AlexRamiller]

Excited to share my first policy brief at the Terner Center, looking at California's efforts to encourage local jurisdictions to proactively enable greater housing production!

[EBCLC @EBCLCNews]

Eviction cases across California have soared following the end of statewide moratoria. At EBCLC, our Housing program is currently seeing 4 times the regular number of eviction cases.
Read the @KQED article: https://t.co/ZDxD9fMDsf

[Tenants Together @TenantsTogether]

“We’re facing the eviction cliff we tried to prevent during the pandemic,” said Tim Thomas, a sociologist and director of @UCBDisplacement who analyzed the data for CalMatters. “Being back to normal this quickly is concerning.”

https://t.co/EjMMlz16OV

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

Black babies are more than *2 TIMES* as likely to die in their 1st year than white babies.

That’s what systemic racism looks like.

Now, conservative groups are attacking programs that aim to close those gaps.

Their intent is clear and it’s absolutely anti-Black racism.

[Anti-Eviction Mapping Project @antievictionmap]

The site for the Worst Evictors of the Bay Area has launched! From corporate to non-profit to former evictors, we profiled the top 30 bad actors in SF and Oakland.
https://t.co/nMf4ARKMQl

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: DOJ Backs Tenants in Case Alleging Price-Fixing by Big Landlords and a Real Estate Tech Company https://t.co/NR91DiOAwi