In response to the CDC issuing a nationwide eviction moratorium through Dec 2020, ACRE released the following statement: “Since the beginning of the pandemic, organizers have fought tirelessly to stop evictions & demand rent cancellation.”-@mo87mo87 (🧵)
npr.org/sections/coron… Co-Executive Director of ACRE, Maurice BP-Weeks continued, “This pressure made the CDC’s extraordinary step to protect millions from eviction for non-payment of rent through Dec. 31 possible.

As demonstrations continue nationwide and anti-racist organizers push to defund the police across the country, we released a tool that calculates the percentage of police budgets to the total respective budget of the 300 largest U.S. cities. Find your city:costofpolice.org “Budgets are about priorities. We need to grapple w/ the fact that elected officials are prioritizing huge portions of our tax dollars-- over a third of total budgets in many cities-- to pay for the brutalization and murder of Black and Brown people by the police.- @traceyecorder