or, @CMMeekaOwens could lean into it and support it and become wildly popular among the citizens she represents regarding the issue she claims as being her top priority🤷♂️
CM Owens says people have been passing around a piece of fake legislation with her contact information on it on false city letterhead. She wasn't specific about what it entailed, but said that's not the way to have "honest conversations" about complex issues.
Rally at City Hall advocating a charter amendment that would fund affordable housing via a .3 percent earnings tax. Organizers w Cincy Action For Housing Now say they have more than 12,000 signatures to get that on November ballot. They're asking council to vote to expidite it.
any streetcar expansion plan needs to also come with an anti displacement plan/tenant protections for the people living along the route or it’s doing more harm than good
When it comes to rent increases, guess which city is number one. At 11, we’ll tell you why it’s happening and introduce you to a woman who’s had to move every year because of the rent prices. @Local12
It's impossible for me to tell you how it feels for thousands of people in Kansas City to vote with the tenant union. We've knocked doors and talked to people who don't know there's an election, don't know a candidate's name, but they know the tenant union. The stuff of dreams.
“Victoria Square was my home,” Kappas said. “It was as far as my concern my one and only home. I was going to live there till I died.”
How are former #VictoriaSquare tenants doing after being kicked out by #SunsetPropertySolutions?
https://t.co/E33oHbUegX
"Zillow reported that the Queen City saw the highest year-over-year rent growth in the U.S. with a 7.9% rent increase as of May 2023."
#AffordableHousingForAll#HousingGuarantee
https://t.co/NrTwtS93QV
Homeless ppl face the brunt of climate change and climate emergencies. While billionaires jet around releasing trillions in Co2 and sleep safe + sound, it's our unhoused neighbors that cook on the streets in the extreme heat and drown and freeze to death in extreme storms.