The climate crisis and the pandemic are spurring local governments to take action—and finally begin to address chronic homelessness.
Affordable housing
We keep saying we can’t go back to the way we were before the pandemic. But we just might be doing that.
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What equitable resource distribution looks like.
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One parcel at a time, Bay Area activists are pushing for land trust housing to decommodify land and take properties out of an unjust market.
During the pandemic shutdown, only government protection kept many people in their homes. That shield is gone now.
A network of government agencies and community service organizations have created a program to help formerly incarcerated people navigate life outside prison.
The coronavirus pandemic has put pressures on tenants who lose work, and the landlords who lose rent income. This program tries to help both.
Private equity firms snatched up rental properties, then neglected them. So Minneapolis activists organized the tenants to fight for their rights.
The coronavirus spread fast in homeless shelters, which prompted creative solutions to safe housing.
In an effort to counteract displacement in racially diverse neighborhoods, Seattle’s Equitable Development Initiative invests in community-led projects that aim to keep longtime residents in their neighborhoods.
A building offering affordable housing now stands as a symbol of trans self-reliance and resilience.
The pandemic has exacerbated housing instability and made tenant activism more critical.
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