From Tenant Organizing to the Halls of Congress: Advancing Social Housing Nationally

September 30, 2024
10 am PT/ 1 pm ET

(Webinar Slides)

As the U.S. housing crisis deepens, the demand for bold action that provides us with safe, stable, community-controlled and truly affordable housing grows ever stronger — a demand for social housing. Housing should enrich our lives, not the pockets of wealthy investors. And now, this vision has made it into the halls of Congress. This webinar looked at the groundswell of local organizing working to put our homes in the hands of our communities, not corporations, and how you can get involved. This webinar featured a conversation between social housing residents, organizers, advocates, and researchers on the organizing happening across the country for green social housing and how it can solve our housing crisis. Participants will come away with a clearer understanding of what social housing is, how campaigns are advancing this vision,  and how new federal legislation can support this work. 

  • Daniel Aldana Cohen, Climate and Community Institute, Socio-spatial Climate Collaborative (SC(2) 
  • Shanti Singh, Tenants Together 
  • Margarita Quintanilla, Resident from Beverly Vermont Community Land Trust  
  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Urban Democracy Lab at NYU 
  • Rae Huang, Housing Now! CA 
  • Jasmine Rangel, PolicyLink 
  • Raquel Forrester, Urban Democracy Lab at NYU
  • Ruthy Gourevitch, Climate and Community Institute
  • Analilia Mejia, Center for Popular Democracy