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StabilizingCommunities:AdvancingHousingJustice
OrganizingandPolicyStrategiesinThisPoliticalMoment
Thursday,March30,2017
Twitter: @ourcityFacebook: Right to the City AllianceAddress: 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217Email: [email protected]: www.RightToTheCity.org
ROCHESTER
Hill District Consensus Group
Alternatives for Community and Environment Boston Workers Alliance Boston Tenant Coalition Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation Chinese Progressive Association City Life/Vida Urbana Coalition of Occupied Homes in ForeclosureDudlety Street Neighborhood Initiative New England United for Justice Penn Loh, Tufts University Right To The City Boston Right To The City Vote
Leadership Center for the Common Good Movement Generation National CAPACD National Domestic Workers Alliance National Low Income Housing Coalition People’s Action Participatory Budgeting Project Rainforest Action Network RoadMap Consulting Ruckus Society Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Take Back The Land-Rochester
Autonomous Tenants Union Centro AutónomoPeople’s Institute for Housing JusticeFrank Avellone, Lawyers Cmte for Better Housing
East LA Community Corporation Gilda Haas, Antioch University Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance Strategic Actions for a Just Economy
Causa Justa::Just Cause Design Action Housing Rights Cmte of SF North Bay Organizing Cmte Sustainable Economies Law Center Tenants Together Urban Habitat
Alliance for a Just Society Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility Campaign for a Fair Settlement Center for Story-based Strategy Climate Justice Alliance Grassroots Global Justice Home Defenders League Indigenouse Environmental Network Jobs With Justice
Right To The City AllianceAlliance and Campaign Membership, 2017
MIAMI
ATLANTA
JACKSON
NASHVILLE
PHILADELPHIA
BALTIMORE
KANSAS CITY
MEMPHIS
LOUISVILLESANTA FE
SANTA ANA
PHOENIX
LONG BEACH
MINNEAPOLIS
MADISON
LINCOLN
DENVER
PROVIDENCE
SPRINGFIELD
POUGHKEEPSIE
NEW YORK CITY
HARTFORD
BOSTON
LYNN
LOS ANGELES
BAY AREA
PORTLAND
SEATTLE
Housing Justice LeagueYanni Loukissas, Georgia Tech
Women’s Community Revitalization Project
Baltimore Housing Roundtable
Vinelanders Community Land Trust
Cooperation Jackson
Homes For All Nashville Mid-South Peace & Justice Center
Kentuckians For The Commonwealth Homeless & Housing Coalition of KY
Esperanza Center for Peace and Justice
Chainbreaker Collective
El Centro Cultural de Mexico
Center for Neighborhood Leadership
Housing Long Beach LiBRE
Well HouseGrand Rapids Tenant Union
Burlington Associates
Building Movement Detroit Detroit People’s Platform North End Woodward Community Coalition Storehouse of Hope CLT
Direct Action for Rights and Equality
ARISE for Social JusticeSpringfield No One Leaves
Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson
CHARJ Lynn United for Change
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities Carroll Gardens Association Community Voices Heard David Harvey, CUNY Graduate Center FUREE
FIERCE Gianpaolo Baiocchi, NYU Urban Demoracy Lab JFREJ Marnie Brady, CUNY Graduate Center Metropolitan Council on Housing Miguel Robles-Duran & Gabriela Rendón, COHSTRA and New School, Design and Urban Ecologies Program Peter Marcuse, Columbia University Picture The Homeless
Inquilinxs Unidxs
Eric Olin Wright, UW Madison Jake Carlson, UW Madison
We Are Vital
Globeville Elyria-Swansea LiveWell Mile High Connects Project VOYCE 9to5 Colorado
Lopez Island CLT Recover The World Standing Against Foreclosure and Eviction Tenants Union of Washington State Community Alliance of Tenants
Community Justice Project Miami Workers Center
Core Member Organization
General Member Organization
Homes For All Campaign Partner / Endorser
Resource Ally
Statewide Organization
Regional Formation
National Partners
CHICAGO
GRAND RAPIDS
BURLINGTON
SAN ANTONIO
DETROIT
PITTSBURGH
Gentrification is a profit driven race and class remake of urban, working class
communities of color that have suffered from a history of disinvestment and abandonment. This process is driven by private developers, landlords, businesses and corporations and supported by the state, through both policies that facilitate the process and funding in the form of public subsidies. Gentrification happens in
areas where commercial and residential land is cheap, relative to other areas in the city and region, and
where the potential to turn a profit, either through re-purposing existing structures or
building new ones is great.
TRANSFORMING OUR CITIES
NEOLIBERAL DEVELOPMENT- Development that is driven by private interests- Public agencies / policies support and facilitate private interest development- Community provides input
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT- Development that is driven by community residents and organizations- Public agencies / policies support and facilitate community driven development - Community provides vision and makes decisions
Community Stabilization
Community –Led
Development
Community Control & Ownership
Short / Immediate Term
Medium Term
Long Term
* Municipal Power * Community Health
* Sustainability * Democracy
The TRANSLOCAL ApproachTranslocal campaigns elevate our greatest strength -- local organization and power - to larger scale impact.
Local organizations unite their common struggles as one national campaign with common branding, strategies, and tactics. This strengthens each local campaign, creates momentum to replicate campaigns in new cities and lays the groundwork for policy and social change regionally, the state, national and international levels.
Rebel Cities
New Urbanism
Freedomor
Sanctuary Cities
Causa Justa :: Just Causewww.cjjc.orgFacebook.com/causajustaTwitter@causajusta1
Right to the City Alliancewww.righttothecity.orgFacebook.com/righttothecityallianceTwitter.com/ourcity
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Introduction
Assuring our Future
Sasha Hauswald
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A Housing Policy Tale
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The Town
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The Business Man
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The Results of Investment
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The Limits of Investment
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The Policy Makers
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The Wonks
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The Opportunity
Change comes from champions both inside and outside of City Hall.
There is no panacea. Policy-makersmust commit to more than a quickfix or isolated near-term win.
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The Outcome
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Chapter 2
• Public-Facing Housing Affordability Strategic Plan• Preservation Working Group• Community Land Trust Feasibility Study
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Relevance for Philanthropy
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The Political Moment
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Advocacy
We need strong local partners to win these policies and to improve them over time.
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Mission Driven Consulting
Ensure that the technical experts advising cities are accountable to values, not hand-strung by the ledger of accounts.
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Implementation & Accountability
Front line staff need to administer programs and
steward affordable units to benefit future generations.
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Connecting the Dots
Technical experts
Practitioners
Advocates and community voices
Policy makers
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Thank You!
Sasha Hauswald, Director of State and Local PolicyGrounded Solutions [email protected]
When you think of Denver think of...
Creamy frosting on the inside…
Smooth Chocolate on the outside...
When you think of Denver think of...Creamy frosting on the inside…
Smooth Chocolate on the outside...
Colorado is experiencing a Housing CRISIS!!!
Problem: Gentrification/Displacement/the “free” Market
Our “Recipe for Success”
● 1 cup inside policy work (Mile High Connects, Enterprise, Legal Services)● 1 ½ cups of reframe of what “Affordable Housing” is today
● 2 cups grassroots organizing● 3 cups - statewide housing table● 4 cups of community land trust
ORGANIZE! Work on Local Renter Protections
Our local “We Organize Westminster committee is working on:
-Renters Bill of Rights-Housing Trust Fund-Housing Legal Advocate
Colorado Homes for All Statewide Grassroots Housing Table
Local Community Groups and Leaders affiliated with Homes for All in February of 2016
Table consists of 15 grassroots organization in the Denver Region and is being facilitated/organized by 9to5 Colorado and FRESC: Good Jobs, Strong Communities
Goal is to engage 20,000 Coloradans in the campaign in the next two years
This table has the ultimate goal of winning a statewide “Rent Control” ballot measure in 2020. Currently the group is focused on leadership development and training for table members and have turned out members to testify on 2017 state housing bills.
Community Land TrustResidents in Denver and surrounding suburbs
have identified CLT as a viable solution to prevent displacement
Community organizations in Denver’s Globeville/Elyria/Swansea neighborhoods have formed a coalition that has prioritized CLT and are engaging with Burlington & Associates to do a business feasibility study of a CLT in their neighborhood
Community leaders in GES are receiving training from Grounded Solutions to prepare them to run their own CLT once financing is secured
Finally, we must cash in on the promises
of our elected leaders.
Housing is a Human
right.
Fund for Democratic Communities
Founded in 2007, F4DC is a Greensboro, North Carolina based private foundation supporting community-based initiatives and institutions that foster authentic democracy to make communities better places to live.
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We believe in the power of ordinary people in
neighborhoods, workplaces and other communities to
understand and solve their own problems when given an
opportunity to put their heads together and hear the diverse
voices of all involved.
Theoryofaction:• HelpCommunitiesdoforthemselves• FacilitateCommunitiesastheirownDevelopers• InvestinCommunity,notWallStreet• PromoteFinanceasanewCommons• PromotepermanenceofCommunity,impermancyofFoundations• RecognizeLaborasthesourceofAllWealth,includingFoundationWealth
• AdvocatethedevelopmentofmetricsforfoundationstodecideSunsetting
• Strivetoanswer:Whatwouldhavetochangeforthelogicofthesystemnottodominateourlives?OwningProductiveAssets!
• Local:RCCandGrassrootsMatchingGrants
• Regional:SRLFandCoopEcon• National:TheFinancialCooperative,ReinvestinOurPowerandShaketheFoundations
• Itallendsattheendof2020.WeareSunsetting!
OurWorkatF4DC
SolvingaFoodDesertinaBlackWorkingClassCommunity
WinnDixieleftthisstripcenterin1998leavingacommunityeyesoreandafooddesert
Expertsassuredusthatthiscommunitywastooblack,toopoorandtoouneducatedforafoodco-op.
StrongcommunityengagementacrossallphasesThecommunityhadbuiltitsorganizingmusclesfightingtoclosealandfillWhenthelandfillfightwaswon,thatorganizingmusclewasrepurposedtowardthegrocerystore50to120peopleattendmonthlyRCCcommunitymeetings
With1200+communityowners,RenaissanceCommunityCoop’sGrandOpeningwasNovember4th and5th2016!
BasicinfoabouttheRCC
10,530squarefeetofleasedspace, withroughly7,200squarefeetofretailspace
Fullservicegrocery– notaglorifiedconveniencestore
FoodisprimarilysourcedfromMDI,areputable“conventional” distributorthattriestosourcelocallywherepossible.
Pricesarecompetitive withFoodLionorKroger
100%ownedandcontrolledbyitscommunityofowners:oneshare–onevoteperowner
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