Hi John,
We talk a lot about the importance of electing underrepresented voices, but there's one group that we haven't talked a ton about --
renters.
Run for Something keeps endorsing candidates who often would become the first or only renter on their city council. Take 2020 candidate Sasha Ren?e P?rez, for example. When she won, she was the first renter on the Alhambra city council, even though
60% of the community residents are tenants (she's now the mayor, by the way!).
When renters aren't represented, landlords and housing developers have an outsized voice in the policies that get passed, from rent control to eviction moratoriums. These policies affect the livelihoods of renters, and renters should be the ones making these kinds of decisions. The conversations about affordable housing, zoning, and building codes change when not everyone in the room is a property owner.
We're still $7,823 short of our grassroots fundraising goal for this quarter. Chip in $5 or more and ensure we elect diverse young progressive renters to build systems that will make housing more available for all of us.
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There are so many different things that can and are being done to make housing so much more affordable. Through the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw rental assistance from Congress and local eviction moratoriums for renters. Local officials in cities like Santa Ana, Saint Paul, and Seattle are introducing and passing policies to control rent by limiting rent increases.
John, supporting renters with these necessary, sweeping policy changes is a whole lot harder when renters, young people, low-income folks -- diverse young progressives -- aren't represented on all of our city councils, county boards, state legislatures, and more.
Let's make sure we see diverse young progressive renters in our local governments. Chip in $5 or whatever you can to ensure renters have a seat at the table.
Let's do this,
Amanda Litman
Co-Founder
Run for Something
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Run for Something is a grassroots-powered organization that recruits and empowers young progressives running for local office, with the goal of winning permanent power for decades to come. We've elected 700 diverse, young progressives to power by relying on support from grassroots donors pitching in a little to create big change. Please chip in now to help us continue running and winning.
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