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š§µ After a long holiday weekend we're jumping right into things in Shelterforce Weekly. We finish up our 'Homes or Cash Cows' series and explore a possible solution to those high rent hikes. š Individual stories are below and our full newsletter is here: conta.cc/3ARTkLR 
First up, 200+ tenant unions, community organizations, and legal advocates call on @POTUS and @FHFA to restrict large rent increases. bit.ly/3cFERuy
@PplsAction #HomesGuarantee
@PplsAction #HomesGuarantee
Next, we jump to our 'Homes or Cash Cows' series and ask: Instead of forcing a landlord to make repairs, what if you could also stop them from acquiring and renting more properties? bit.ly/3Q5UqJv
ANNOUNCING: A new cohort of Council members from 18 countries ā activists and artists, MPs and ministers, trade union militants and tenant organizers ā joins the @ProgIntl on the occasion of its first anniversary.
A thread on the newest members of the Council:
A thread on the newest members of the Council:
1/ Lina Attalah (@Linaattalah) is an award-winning journalist and campaigner for freedom of speech based in Egypt. She is co-founder and Chief Editor of @MadaMasr, an independent online Egyptian newspaper and member of the @ProgIntl Wire.
2/ Selay Ghaffar (@Selay_Ghaffar) is a fearless activist for political and womenās rights in Afghanistan. She is spokesperson for the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (@hambastagi), a member of the @ProgIntl.
It looks like @RepMarciaFudge is chosen as the new @HUDgov Secretary. Very interesting choice by the Biden-Harris team. We don't know much about what Rep. Fudge thinks on housing, but we think her other positions like support for M4A and Green New Deal are good signs!
HUD right now needs someone who is a fighter. Our early ask to @RepMarciaFudge will be to support a homesguarantee (homesguarantee.com) and start rebuilding the agency to meet that need. She has many committed directly impacted peoples to help her if she chooses.
.@RepMarciaFudge will have her work cut out for her, perhaps more than any @HUDgov secretary in history as we're still on the front end of the biggest housing crisis we've ever seen. We're hopeful she'll roll up her sleeves and get to work, and we're ready to push!
In response to the CDC issuing a nationwide eviction moratorium through Dec 2020, ACRE released the following statement: āSince the beginning of the pandemic, organizers have fought tirelessly to stop evictions & demand rent cancellation.ā-@mo87mo87 (š§µ)
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Co-Executive Director of ACRE, Maurice BP-Weeks continued, āThis pressure made the CDCās extraordinary step to protect millions from eviction for non-payment of rent through Dec. 31 possible.
āIt is unacceptable that this substantive relief measure has come from a fascistic administration using it as an ill-disguised political move timed perfectly to coincide with the election, and itās not enough.
One of the, big important ideas: the Guarantee. @miabirdsong @SolanaRice @JessLivMo @taraghuveer @streuhaft are visionary thinkers behind 4 campaigns built on guarantees: housing, jobs, family care + income. Now at @Netroots_Nation #NN20 #Guarantees4Life app.socio.events/NjE1Nw/Agenda/ā¦
Visionary founder of @LiberationIn is moderating, reminding us the stakes: if we do nothing, Black and LatinX wealth be $0 by 2050 without big changes to the way capitalism works. #NN20 #Guarantees4Life
#HomesGuarantee āwe live in the richest country in the history of the world, we can and should guarantee housingā says @taraghuveer #NN20 #guarantees4life
The brilliant BLM organizer @CoriBush, with leading endorsements from the political left, has won the latest stunning primary upset
Tell me again that the Green New Deal movement can't help elect candidates all over the country
Big Environmental Justice and Green New Deal energy
Article on tensions between affordable housing + greening misses a lot.
National #HomesGuarantee campaign explicitly lays out policies to combine greening + affordability.
The first Green New Deal leg proposal was for huge investments in public housing.
eenews.net/stories/106361ā¦
National #HomesGuarantee campaign explicitly lays out policies to combine greening + affordability.
The first Green New Deal leg proposal was for huge investments in public housing.
eenews.net/stories/106361ā¦
Have there been tensions between green policy elites and housing movements? Absolutely! (I'm writing a book about it.)
But this piece deploys the classic liberal framing of tragic tradeoffs, when there are movements articulating a clear solution: investment + decommodification.
But this piece deploys the classic liberal framing of tragic tradeoffs, when there are movements articulating a clear solution: investment + decommodification.
We should also note that every putative tension between greening and housing affordability was addressed in smart ways by @BernieSanders's Housing and Green New Deal plans. It may be hard to implement this stuff. No doubt. But the solutions aren't especially mysterious.
Today the minimum wage in LA finally hits $15!
As a result of legislation I co-sponsored in 2015, the wage has been climbing since 2016. Today, it reaches $15 for employees of business w 26+ employees. For employees of smaller biz, the wage is $14.25 and will reach $15 in 2021.
As a result of legislation I co-sponsored in 2015, the wage has been climbing since 2016. Today, it reaches $15 for employees of business w 26+ employees. For employees of smaller biz, the wage is $14.25 and will reach $15 in 2021.
Future wage increases are tied to inflation. This was the work of a tremendous grassroots coalition of labor, community and religious groups, and I was proud to co-sponsor with @CD6Nury @CurrenDPriceJr and @gilcedillo. It started a legislative trend that spread statewide.
But $15/hr won't help if you can't afford housing, which is why I support #HomesGuarantee and the #HealthyLA coalition. And a $15/hr doesn't help if you don't have a job, which is why we need the @BernieSanders @KamalaHarris bill to give Americans $2000/month during COVID crisis.
Do y'all even know what @JamaalBowmanNY campaigned on? He's not playing
This is MASSIVE win for the housing movement, and the intersection of housing and climate
bowmanforcongress.com/a-new-deal-forā¦
This is MASSIVE win for the housing movement, and the intersection of housing and climate
bowmanforcongress.com/a-new-deal-forā¦
.@NikilSaval having a hell of a night so far, though there are still loads of mail-ins to count.
He campaigned on a #HomesGuarantee; GND for PA; Universal Care policies: Mass Liberation, Not Mass Incarceration; and Rebuild Every School
The Philly left is so good at organizing
He campaigned on a #HomesGuarantee; GND for PA; Universal Care policies: Mass Liberation, Not Mass Incarceration; and Rebuild Every School
The Philly left is so good at organizing
And @SummerForPA crushing her re-election! Huge win for anti-racist, anti-fracking left in the Pittsburgh area
Your #CancelRent May Day playlist starts w @harikondabolu telling us why we need to cancel the damn rent this week
Next, step back w KC Tenantsā @TianaCaldwell15 to visualize the world weāre fighting for: a #HomesGuarantee that would finally make housing a human right for everyone
Now drill down on the intersection of the #HomesGuarantee and the Green New Deal. Ted Danson narrates this beauty on all the ways that green housing would lift up and beautify our frontline communities
Klobuchar says sheŹ»s against @BernieSanders "socialist philosophy" because she believes in supporting entrepreneurs.
But how many millions more would start businesses if they didnŹ»t have to worry about healthcare for themselves, their families, and employees? #MedicareForAll
But how many millions more would start businesses if they didnŹ»t have to worry about healthcare for themselves, their families, and employees? #MedicareForAll
@BernieSanders How many new industries and innovations were left in the minds of brilliant working people who couldnŹ»t afford to attend college or were too saddled by debt pursue their ideas?#TuitionFreeCollege #CancelStudentDebt
@BernieSanders How many hopeful entrepreneurs were cheated out by monopolistic corporations that fund political campaigns and only believe in "free markets" when it means outsourcing jobs?#BreakUpBigTech
We assume NY is progressive because it's Blue, but we're represented by Reps that oppose progressive policies that are overwhelmingly supported. ( @DataProgress )
š #GreenNewDeal 64%-20%
š„ #MedicareForAll 59%-24%
š #HomesGuarantee 62%-21%
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š #GreenNewDeal 64%-20%
š„ #MedicareForAll 59%-24%
š #HomesGuarantee 62%-21%
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With the exception of @AOC, NY Reps survive by their corporate donors pumping $millions into their campaigns to push policies benefiting the super-rich at the expense of hard working NYers.
š°That's why 70% of NYers support corruption reforms.
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š°That's why 70% of NYers support corruption reforms.
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We need to break the false narratives from corporate-funded think tanks & politicians that the solutions we need are "impractical," when they are absolutely feasible, necessary & popular. They are prioritizing donations over the wellbeing of people.
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Yesterday at a teach-in for the GND for Public Housing Act, I talked about green public housing (retrofits + new construction) winning top architecture prizes in France + UK
@AOC jumped up to emphasize: this is real, we can have this!
Today this story
manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-mā¦
@AOC jumped up to emphasize: this is real, we can have this!
Today this story
manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-mā¦
@AOC Don't stop there: On Bordeaux's European prize-winning public housing green retrofit
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2ā¦
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2ā¦
The @kimmelman write-up of an earlier version of the Bordeaux retrofit, this time a fabulously successful green upgrade to public housing in Paris
nytimes.com/2012/03/28/artā¦
nytimes.com/2012/03/28/artā¦
Today @BernieSanders previewed his housing plan. We have to take a moment to acknowledge something major: his plan comes from movement demands to upend the housing system, to put people over profit, to move more housing off the market and into public hands.
Most Americans spend most of their income on housing. And yet, housing has been ignored in national politics. It was basically a non-issue in 2016. Now, Bernie joins Warren, Booker, Harris, Castro in presenting a housing agenda. That happened because the movement demanded it.
Of course, just *having* a housing platform can't be our standard. Which is why @BernieSanders plan should excite us all. His comes closer than anyone else's to a vision for a #HomesGuarantee: millions of social homes, universal rent control, and reinvestment in public housing.
Today is historic. People impacted by the housing crisis are proposing a #HomesGuarantee: a complete overhaul of our economy, and a vision to eradicate housing insecurity and homelessness once and for all. Nothing short of this will do: homesguarantee.com
The #HomesGuarantee: 12 mill social housing units, massive reinvestment in public housing, a tenant bill of rights including universal rent control, reparations. A climate and racial justice intervention, itās what we need to meet the scale, breadth, depth of the housing crisis
Our radical team has set me on FIRE. If anyone's gonna change the world, it's this crew: residents of public housing, people experiencing homelessness, the best organizers in the country, and brilliant thinkers who followed grassroots leadership: homesguarantee.com/our-team
