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Alliance for Housing Justice
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🤝 🏘️ Building & supporting infrastructure for a powerful, grassroots-led movement to win safe, affordable, equitable housing for all. 🔗 linkin.bio/aforhj
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“It’s really easy for landlords to either ignore or simply bully individual tenants, and the only way we can leverage our power up to take back what we’re owed is by collectively working together.”

Alleging landlord neglect, Omaha renters form unions to fight back - Flatwater Free Press
Alleging landlord neglect, Omaha renters form unions to fight back - Flatwater Free Press

Tenants at four Omaha-area apartment complexes voted to unionize this summer. Now renters at a fifth complex are moving in that direction.

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Our teachers deserve better. We all do. Thank heavens for tenant unions. #GoodCause

Screenshot of News10NBC story by Deanna Dewberry from September 24, 2024: “‘what did I do?’: retired teacher battling stage four breast cancer fights eviction from Rochester home” news clip featured below the headline has chyron “GOOD CAUSE EVICTION” is paused on a scene of 10 people with banners in front of a house, one large banner says “eviction free zone”
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It’s time to invest in solutions that work for everyone. Let’s support this transformative legislation & build a future where everyone has a place to call home.

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We have the opportunity to reimagine our housing system, away from homes being treated like assets in some billionaire investment portfolio & toward a future where housing is a guaranteed human right — no exceptions.

Social Housing 101 | The Answer to America's Housing Crisis
Social Housing 101 | The Answer to America's Housing Crisis

YouTube video by Alliance for Housing Justice

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🌍👷🏽‍♂️ The bill tackles the climate crisis head-on by decarbonizing our housing stock, creating hundreds of thousands of good-paying union jobs along the way. It’s a win for the people & for the planet.

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The #HomesAct works to transform our racially unjust housing system & redress decades of discrimination that’ve left Black & Brown communities bearing the brunt of our affordability, homelessness, & eviction crises.

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🏘️🌱 @ocasio-cortez.house.gov@sentinasmith.bsky.social#SocialHousing authority to build & repair green, permanently affordable homes.

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The status quo has left millions struggling — families weighing rent vs. groceries, communities displaced & homelessness at record highs.  Our country has a choice to make: keep at the same failed approaches or meet the moment with ingenuity & care?🧵

CityLab | Housing
AOC Proposes $30 Billion Social
Housing Authority
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's far-reaching bill in Congress would create a public alternative to private developers, in a bid to fill the immense affordable housing need.
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We all deserve a roof over our head. #SocialHousing#HomesAct.

White text on blueprint style background with sketch of home on bottom right. Top says “the homes act”
graphic for the "Homes Act" featuring two columns of key points The background contains an outline drawing of a house blueprint.

- **1.25M Homes Over 10 Years**
  - **876k for very low/low income households**
    - Establishes HUD Housing Development Authority to build permanently affordable housing.
    - Puts housing back in the hands of community by empowering local entities to acquire and rehabilitate homes:
      - Public Housing Authorities
      - Nonprofits
      - Cooperatives
      - State/Tribal/Local Governments
      - Community Land Trusts
- **417K Jobs Per Year**
  - **Including 157,000 construction jobs**
    - Expands our housing continuum, provides new options for renters and homeowners.
    - Fully funds the public housing capital backlog and repeals the cap on new public housing development.
    - Gives tenants and community org
— Sets aside funding for rural and Tribal communities.
Sponsored by Senator Tina Smith & AOC
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Alliance for Housing Justice
@aforhj.bsky.social
🤝 🏘️ Building & supporting infrastructure for a powerful, grassroots-led movement to win safe, affordable, equitable housing for all. 🔗 linkin.bio/aforhj
889 followers181 following171 posts