🧵 This week, we celebrated the tenant organizing efforts & groundbreaking of a new era for Rosewood Courts in #ATX.
This housing property was the first federally-backed public housing project for African Americans in the entire United States.
This housing property was the first federally-backed public housing project for African Americans in the entire United States.
2/ Rosewood Courts was built during FDR's New Deal & secured in Austin by LBJ.
In fact, Texas was one of the birthplaces of public housing in America, thanks to LBJ when he was a Congressman.
📸: Rosewood Courts in 1954 (Dewey G. Mears Photograph Archive/Austin History Center)
In fact, Texas was one of the birthplaces of public housing in America, thanks to LBJ when he was a Congressman.
📸: Rosewood Courts in 1954 (Dewey G. Mears Photograph Archive/Austin History Center)
3/ Rosewood residents worked for years to have their housing rehabilitated so that it would finally have central air and heat, functioning pipes, more space for families, & the ability for low income and working people to afford central east Austin.
4/ The Austin Housing Authority is beginning construction work to achieve these goals at Rosewood.
5/ Our history at Rosewood Courts doesn’t call on us to be complacent.
It calls on us to rise to the responsibility to deliver for working families now and into the future.
It calls on us to rise to the responsibility to deliver for working families now and into the future.
6/ We must improve the quality of public housing.
We must expand public housing by ending the Faircloth limit.
We must expand funding for affordable housing, and fight gentrification and displacement.
And we can do it all with public housing residents leading the way.
We must expand public housing by ending the Faircloth limit.
We must expand funding for affordable housing, and fight gentrification and displacement.
And we can do it all with public housing residents leading the way.
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