AHJ - CarsonWatch

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

[🔎 Poverty & Race Research Action Council - PRRAC @PRRAC_DC]

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.

https://t.co/q8jIcFwLtc

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

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.

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

Learn about Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing & why the radical right wants this new Fair Housing rule dead:

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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 💗https://t.co/FIeGTr4h9F

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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👏👏👏
https://t.co/VmtJvFryvH

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

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:
📍https://t.co/MXVLVTRTMQ

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

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: https://t.co/7p2oPJ1GQu

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

Illinois is one of ~32 states preemptively banning municipalities from democratically enacting rent control. https://t.co/HZVJfDBpjO

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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.

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

"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 https://t.co/VCuTc8Su5S

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

“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. https://t.co/0yaiqtziDQ

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

Stop spending millions blocking tenant protections.

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

"Faced with rocketing rents & house prices, the housing crisis can seem inevitable. But it doesn’t have to be this way."

👏 @LeilaniFarha @Make_TheShift
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[AHJ - CarsonWatch @Carson_Watch]

"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.

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

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”
https://t.co/lVeTc4at0g

[Public Advocates Inc @publicadvocates]

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

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

A reminder on #WorldHealthDay:
housing is healthcare & eviction = death. https://t.co/hNXxRlv0Eh

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

Ramadan Mubarak! May all who observe enjoy a peaceful and healing Ramadan.

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

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✍✍✍

[Alliance for Housing Justice @aforhj]

🔑 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.