Movement Blog for the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights

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 during the broadcast–including reflecting on local struggles in New Orleans and Chicago–J.R. spoke to the imprudence and injustice of the Obama administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s public housing privatization plan PETRA in the face of the national economic and housing crisis:

“We have been engaged with HUD around a conversation around Preserving, Expanding, and Transforming Rental Assistance (PETRA), which is also known as the preservation of public housing. And how do you preserve public housing, they say? By taking it out of the hands of the government and giving it to the banks. The same people who just failed us, who failed middle class America, you now want them to fail poor people.”