The Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights

Congress & National Housing Advocates Betray Residents with Support & Passage of Inequitable HUD Spending Bill

Brittany — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:31:08 +0000

It is extremely disappointing that Congress has chosen to pass deep cuts to crucial federal low-income housing programs (-3.8 billion). Yet, perhaps the biggest letdown is, at the same time, the increase in funding for problematic programs that demolish and ultimately lead to the privatization of permanently affordable housing. One of these programs, the Rental [...]

Groups Aim to Seize Foreclosed Homes in Holiday Protest

Brittany — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:33:56 +0000

Chicago News Cooperative, Don Terry, Dec. 1, 2011

Even if the winds of winter blow the Occupy Chicago protesters and percussionists off the corner of LaSalle Street and Jackson Boulevard, civil disobedience is not going into hibernation.

A coalition of community organizations, including Occupy Chicago and Occupy the Hood Chicago [...]

Reflections with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing on More Than a Roof’s Launch, Crackdowns on Dissent & the Struggle to Be Heard in Vermont

Brittany — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:30:18 +0000

Reflections with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing on More Than a Roof’s Launch, Crackdowns on Dissent & the Struggle to Be Heard in Vermont

On October 21st, 2011, NESRI attended the side event of the 66th United Nations General Assembly on the Right to Adequate Housing. The event was hosted [...]

National Civil Rights Groups Raise Issue with LA Attorney’s “Crackdown on Dissent”

Brittany — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:12:11 +0000

National civil and human rights organizations with a long collective history of defending the right of political expression and challenging the targeting of movement leaders submitted the following appeal letter to the Los Angeles City Attorney on behalf of Mr. Steve Richardson, a community organizer with the LA Community Action Network (LA CAN) based in [...]

Reflections on Occupy Wall St

Brittany — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:30:29 +0000

Max Rameau on the Baltimore Occupy movement and taking back the land (click to listen on Free Speech Radio News)

Tue, 10/18/2011 – 14:45 – Occupy encampments continue across the country, including in Baltimore, where over the weekend Pan-African theorist Max Rameau gave a teach-in and addressed the General Assembly. Rameau is an organizer [...]

NYC Foreclosure Auction Occupied by Singing Community Members

Brittany — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:40:41 +0000

Auctioneer: Hold All The Sales Right Now!:

Singing Community Members Occupy Auctions in Brooklyn court; 9 activists arrested

Calling on the judicial system to institute an immediate moratorium on all foreclosures until a fair system of home loans is put into place, a group of New York City housing justice advocates disrupted the auction [...]

On PBS This Week: US Housing Movement Featured on Tavis Smiley ‘Poverty Tour’ Documentary

Brittany — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:58:34 +0000

This past summer members of the Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) out of Philadelphia, PA traveled the country alongside PBS broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Princeton professor Dr. Cornel West on a Poverty Tour of the United States.

Yesterday, October 10th PBS’ Tavis Smiley began broadcast the fruits of this outing in a five-part documentary series called [...]

L.A. Housing Collective celebrates nomination of Union de Vecinos’ member to L.A. Housing Authority Commission

Brittany — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:00:05 +0000

The Right to Remain Inhabiting: World Habitat Days 2011

Brittany — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:13:29 +0000

“I am aware that there are many who wince at the distinction between property and persons – who hold both sacrosanct. My views are not so rigid. A life is sacred. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It [...]

Chicago Public Housing Advocates Identify CHA Abuse of Vacancies & Evictions

Brittany — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:57:44 +0000

At the CHA Board of Commissioners’ meeting today, local public housing residents and advocates repeated over and over two messages: lease up vacant public housing units and stop one-strike evictions!

The Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign demanded amnesty from one-strike for public housing residents (one strike = zero tolerance regulations that allow the housing [...]