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After years of campaigning, this past Wednesday, members of the Squad made up of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan joined by Reps. Chuy Garcia of Illinois, Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, and Pramila Jayapal of Washington State, officially launched The People’s Housing Platform – a shared housing agenda that focuses on building toward a future of stable, safe and deeply-affordable housing for all. We organized with our allies at  People’s Action and made national headlines in [Curbed]([link removed]), [Next City]([link removed]) as well as other local outlets.


The People’s Housing Platform aims to address the national housing crisis and if passed, would be the most significant Federal action on housing since the 1940s. The launch was just the beginning –– now the real work to organize and get it passed begins. [Will you stand with us to fight for just housing for all?]([link removed])
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For decades, neighbors have come together to envision a future of housing where everyone can live where they want to, in a safe, comfortable, and stable environment. That’s what makes these bills different from previous housing bills –– tenant leaders, housing advocates, and public housing residents from our network worked in deep partnership with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib on the flagship bills of their housing agendas to have a say in designing policies that are reflective of their lived experiences and centers how our communities and neighborhoods function. And these Members of Congress are helping to implement them.
 
The bills introduced includes tenant protections like access to counsel, just cause evictions, and universal rent control, the push to rein in private equity companies and other predatory corporate landlords with transparency and disclosure requirements, and the promise to invest in affordable and public housing. If passed, the bills will move to update public housing with green and sustainable technology, allow public housing residents to have a say and decision-making power over the state of their community, and bring quality jobs and workforce training to public housing residents. And this is just the tip of the iceberg!
 
Our homes are the foundations for our lives. But because of outrageous rent hikes, poorly-maintained and underfunded public housing, racial segregation of neighborhoods, increasing urban displacement, and corporate tax and land giveaways, more and more people in this country lack a home to thrive.
 
I’m really proud of what we’ve been able to do. From landmark renter protections to eviction reform and beyond, with your support, we have changed the national conversation about housing justice, shifted the idea of what is possible for just housing in the U.S. and won critical victories like this for our communities. I’m asking for your continued support to make sure we have the resources we need to keep organizing our communities.

 

Together, we can curb displacement and foreclosures, reduce evictions and homelessness, rein in corporate landlords and continue to demand dignity for our communities. We couldn’t have done it without you. [I urge you to please stand with our housing justice campaign by making a contribution to protect tenants everywhere.]([link removed])


In solidarity,

Dianne Enriquez
Co-Director, Community Dignity Campaigns, CPD


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