Residents Organizing for Change Oregon

We are Residents Organizing for Change! We are a group of residents of affordable housing, front-line staff, and people directly impacted by housing needs.

[Residents Organizing for Change Oregon @ROCOregon]

ROC Member Eileen shares her perspective about her journey from experiencing homelessness to housing, and why it's so important to have compassion for our neighbors who don't have a safe and stable home today.
https://t.co/uIJKpMavGf

[Resident Action Project @RAPWashington]

Let the power building begin! @CCCHTFP @ROCOregon @ResidentsUnited #housinglouisiana #HousingJustice #changingthenarrative #changingpolicy #housingequity

[Residents Organizing for Change Oregon @ROCOregon]

We are so excited to welcome our new Housing Justice Organizer, Rebekah! https://t.co/R4kf89LD8r.

[National Low Income Housing Coalition @NLIHC]

“We get brought in because people want to just hear our stories. But when it comes to implementation, decisions are made by those who don’t know what it’s like to be homeless." https://t.co/lhHWUyXqer

[Community Change Action @CommChangeAct]

This Int’l Women’s Day, watch housing activist Omari Ho-Sang’s story about being empowered by the realization that she was an impacted person – not just an advocate.

Does this sound like you? Tell us your story.

Made with @Shelterforce.
https://t.co/X2gl18BNCk

[Street Roots @StreetRoots]

Unhoused Portlanders share their thoughts on the emergency ban forbidding encampments along high-traffic corridors. By @henry_brannan
https://t.co/l58zK0HOBb

[Residents Organizing for Change Oregon @ROCOregon]

Today, #orleg released a $400M package of investments in preventing & ending homelessness, building & maintaining safe and stable housing, and more. Investments must address the root causes of homelessness - the lack of affordable homes. Thank you Rep. @juliefahey & @SenatorJama

[Oregon Housing Alliance @Voices4ORHomes]

Next Monday, 2/21 @NPartnerships will begin reviewing resumes for our Housing Justice Organizer position! This person will get to work with the very awesome @ROCOregon! Apply today! https://t.co/M7k1X46Rxl

[Commissioner Susheela Jayapal @Multco_Jayapal]

Get involved in housing and houselessness — apply to join the @oregonmetro Supportive Housing Services tri-county planning body. Applications are accepted through 2/18.

Learn more about the role, stipend opportunities, and how to apply at:
https://t.co/38hjWzPobb

[Street Roots @StreetRoots]

Director's Desk: "Too much policy that impacts the lives of unhoused people is written without their input, so we are focused on insisting elected officials view unhoused people as their constituents," @mkaiasand
writes.
https://t.co/WHR1Xcjlef

[Residents Organizing for Change Oregon @ROCOregon]

Our work is expanding, and @NPartnerships is hiring another Housing Justice Organizer! If you're passionate about housing justice, and care about making sure people directly impacted have seats at the decision making table, you should apply before 2/21! https://t.co/p6ZG3hmnMw

[Community Change @communitychange]

Impacted people are best equipped to come up with the tactics and strategies to liberate us all.

They just need access. Just pass the mic. 🎤

[Resident Action Project @RAPWashington]

It's a great day to support @RealChangeNews and pick up a paper from one of the local vendors! Our own @Hopedealer19 shares her journey of homelessness and the trauma she and her son experienced.
#homelessness #HousingJustice #HousingForAll

[Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative @homelessnesspdx]

Anyone with lived experience of homelessness, from marginalized group incl. people of color or who serves ppl experiencing homelessness, @oregonmetro wants your expertise to serve on the supportive housing services tri-county planning body.

Learn more https://t.co/DWE2lOhZf0

[Residents Organizing for Change Oregon @ROCOregon]

And a fabulous ROC leader!

[News from the streets @INSP_NAmerica]

Mandee Seeley is a Florida grown advocate with lived experience of addiction and houselessness who has found her community in Central Oregon. When she’s not trying to save the world, she enjoys exploring, hiking and reading to expand her body, mind and soul.

[News from the streets @INSP_NAmerica]

"They remain hidden, and on the go, surviving the only way they know how. They deserve a roof over their head, period. They deserve a safe place to call home. We must do better Mr. @POTUS.

Sincerely,

Mandee Seeley

[News from the streets @INSP_NAmerica]

"Hundreds of thousands of Americans don’t have the option to return home after a long weekend of camping. There are so many good people who have ended up homeless because of the lack of living wage jobs & access to affordable housing."

[News from the streets @INSP_NAmerica]

That’s the reality. Imagine going camping for an extended period of time without the luxuries of home, all while you’re harassed and treated like dirt by your own community. That’s what it’s like to be houseless where I live. It’s exhausting and humiliating."

[News from the streets @INSP_NAmerica]

Mr. President, if you feel like this is too much to ask for, I encourage to imagine having to survive in a National Forest with your family, constantly having to pack up everything you own and remain on the go just to evade law enforcement for the crime of existing."

[News from the streets @INSP_NAmerica]

"Talking isn’t enough anymore, it’s time for action. The right to housing is still being denied to more than a million people in this country."