Movement Blog for the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights

Mayday New Orleans member and public housing community leader Sharon Jasper appeared on GRITtv online this week to speak about the harsh climate for housing organizing in New Orleans. Watch her interview, Skyped in from the Gulf, below and visit the GRITtv website to watch their complete program on New Orleans five years after Katrina, [...]

Yesterday, August 29, marked the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s first landfall in New Orleans. Displaced New Orleanians living in New York and the Tri-State Area organized an all-day event to commemorate the occasion. The day opened with a press conference featuring Johnnie Stevens of the Post Katrina Rita Awareness Walk and Rob Robinson of [...]

Survivors Village New Orleans is organizing a number of upcoming events to fight against the City of New Orleans’s attack on Fight Back Center, a home base for organizing and housing rights movement-building, and commemorate the fifth anniversary of the storm. Please find information from Survivors Village below and mark your calendars!
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March and Rally, [...]

This week Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights member Picture the Homeless (PTH) launched a participatory online mapping project to help New Yorkers all over the city document vacant buildings and lots in their communities.
Since 2006, when Picture the Homeless conducted a borough-wide count of vacant buildings in Manhattan and found enough vacant properties to [...]

Join Land of Opportunity director Luisa Dantas, Housing is a Human Right, and the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative for an evening of film, testimony, and discussion at New York’s Brecht Forum Tuesday, August 31. The evening’s program reflects on the meaning of home, community, and the future of our cities from New Orleans [...]

Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights member Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN) submitted six videos to the Testify Project. With the United Nations to review the U.S.’s human rights record for the first time in November, the U.S. Human Rights Network initiated the Testify Project to collect testimonies of human rights violations by impacted [...]

Join the New York Katrina Rita Survivors Assembly in commemorating the fifth anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita with a march from Union Square to an event at the Solidarity Center on Sunday, August 29. The program features awards given to solidarity groups and individuals, a Gulf Coast dinner, and a raffle. Full event and [...]

NESRI is thrilled to release Coming Home: The Dry Storm, the award-winning documentary on public housing privatization and community organizing in post-Katrina New Orleans, next month. With Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights member organization May Day New Orleans and the Rada Film Group, NESRI was an executive producer on the film. You can preview [...]

Long-time public housing leader and MayDay New Orleans member Sharon Jasper is facing an assault charge and housing voucher termination for her courage to speak out against New Orleans’s policies of public housing demolition and displacement. After her participation in a May 28 demonstration protesting the private Columbia Parc development that replaced St. Bernard public [...]

Human right to housing movement leaders J.R. Fleming of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign and the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights and Endesha Juakali of Survivors Village New Orleans appeared last night on Los Angeles’s KPFK 90.7FM Beautiful Struggle. You can listen to the whole broadcast here.
Among the many hot issues J.R. and Endesha discussed [...]