Check out our interview with Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses & Allied Professionals for their news letter, Critical Update. Housing security is a medical need and we're happy to connect the dots for folx in all professions to see housing justice as necessary for healthy and stable communities!
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"It’s time to spread some of that authority around, particularly to those Philadelphians who are most vulnerable to displacement and most need a voice in the city’s property development.
A 2017 report on youth homelessness in Philadelphia found a disproportionate and long-lasting displacement of the most marginalized groups. According to this data, 75 percent of young people experienced housing instability following family instability, some as early as from birth, suggesting that housing insecurity is tied to lifelong poverty and displacement. Over 30 percent of the interviewees identified as not heterosexual, and 31 percent identified as African-American, leading any other racial group."
This election season, a housing prerogative for all the people | Opinion
philly.com
District Council members have too much say in land deals, while most Philadelphians don't have enough.Today the Federation of Rental Housing Providers (FRPO), the Ontario landlords’ association, held a special meeting on busting tenant organizations. Entitled “How to Handle a Crisis: The Media, AGIs and Tenant Actions”, it featured legal, public relations, and property management experts. George Van Noten of Minto Group (pictured right) gave a talk on how to price tenants out of their homes with rent increases above the guideline, like he is doing right now in Flemingdon Park.
Our enemies consider organizing by working-class people to be a serious potential threat to their interests. In Parkdale, building and district-wide organizing has beat rent increases and evictions while improving conditions, directly challenging landlords’ profit-making strategies. Landlords are learning lessons from their defeats and are preparing for future battles. We in turn must develop our organizations by broadening and deepening the participation and commitment of our neighbours.
"Universal rent control, or capping the amount that landlords can raise what you owe every year, is no longer a total pipe dream.
A version of it has become law in Oregon, been considered state-wide on both coasts, and advocates in states like Illinois, Colorado and Washington have been pushing to repeal laws that restrict rent control as a first move toward what might be the same ultimate end."
Landlords Are Actually Losing the Power to Jack Up Your Rent
vice.com
It's called "universal rent control," and it's coming for the housing crisis."Last year, the BBWC launched its anti-displacement campaign “Disappearing Blackness,” which focuses on preventing the displacement of residents — typically low-income, Black and Brown people — due to gentrification primarily in West and Southwest Philadelphia. The group has since partnered with Philadelphia Tenants Union, Act Up Philadelphia, Philly for R.E.A.L. Justice and others on the campaign. The protests last week against Blackwell were part of the campaign."
#disappearingBlackness