Reclaim Rent Control

TOMORROW!!! 💪🏿

Are you a grassroots communicator working to solve homelessness? We want to work with you to change the narrative! Take our short survey to share your communications and narrative needs so we can better support organizations like yours! bit.ly/HousingNarrati…

We hosted the first webinar in our Homelessness Media Series for journalists yesterday on how to be anti-racist in housing/homelessness coverage. Thank you to our guests journalist & professor Yvonne Latty and Saba Mwine from @HPRI_LA! Watch the webinar at youtube.com/watch?v=nUjM32…

@FairBudgetDC is having an action at the Wilson building to advocate for the families that our Local Government Leaders are letting fall off the cliff into homelessness. Come out and Support!

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Applications are officially open for our summer organizing fellowship: forms.gle/gUL2TroPEK4nzM…

The kickoff day has arrived for our @GroundedNetwork housing #PolicyPracticePower national conf. in D.C.!!! What better place than the doorstep of @blmplaza to push our agenda for #LastingAffordablityinHousingNow as the path to #RacialEquity

@ChmnMendelson has added 400 Targeted Affordable Housing vouchers for families in rapid re-housing. While we are very pleased to see the increase, it is nowhere near enough $$ to #EndTheCliff. @BrianneKNadeau @CMRobertWhiteDC @trayonwhite @Janeese4DC @tweetelissa @brookepintodc

We're not gonna let @MayorBowser paper over her housing failures at some shiny new ribboncutting when we're still waiting on STAY money in bad conditions while slumlords pocket the rent! #boobowser

Southeast DC (2018). Children work and play at the Barry Farm Dwellings, a public housing development that was demolished in 2019. Photographed by Joy Sharon Yi.

Solidarity!

Excluded Workers are rallying this May Day! We're inviting the whole DC community to show up in support and solidarity to uplift the struggles of excluded workers and the fight for $160 million in cash assistance The New Labor Movement! #DontExcludeMe #NoMeExcluyas

DC Jobs with Justice is growing - help us find the next members of our team. We're hiring for three positions: Organizing Director A Labor Organizer A Database Coordinator and Organizer Learn More Here: Tinyurl.com/DCJWJJOBS

Spend #MyDCTaxDollars on housing vouchers to #EndTheCliff & #EndHomelessness. @FairBudgetDC @ChmnMendelson @BrianneKNadeau @RobertWhite_DC @trayonwhite @tweetelissa @CMLewisGeorgeW4 @CMBrookePinto @marycheh @kenyanmcduffie @VinceGrayWard7 @AnitaBondsDC @chenderson @charlesallen

This staffer & pup say spend #MyDCTaxDollars on deeply affordable housing. @FairBudgetDC @ChmnMendelson @BrianneKNadeau @RobertWhite_DC @trayonwhite @tweetelissa @CMLewisGeorgeW4 @CMBrookePinto @marycheh @kenyanmcduffie @VinceGrayWard7 @AnitaBondsDC @chenderson @charlesallen

Our amazing law clerk Abby says spend #MyDCTaxDollars on housing vouchers! @FairBudgetDC @ChmnMendelson @BrianneKNadeau @RobertWhite_DC @trayonwhite @tweetelissa @CMLewisGeorgeW4 @CMBrookePinto @marycheh @kenyanmcduffie @VinceGrayWard7 @AnitaBondsDC @chenderson @charlesallen

Daniel from @EmpowerDC wants his tax dollars spent on public housing repairs! #MyDCtaxDollars @councilofdc @BrianneKNadeau @CMBrookePinto @CMLewisGeorgeW4 @CM_McDuffie @CMCharlesAllen @ChmnMendelson @CM_Silverman @chenderson @RobertWhite_DC @AnitaBondsDC

New Time! 🐰🧺🥚 Join us now at Emery Rec Center from 1pm-3pm for our Ward 4 Family Egg Hunt and Basket Giveaway!

The backdrop to #dcission22 is the rapid gentrification of DC. Tens of thousands of Washingtonians have been displaced, including members of my family. We must elect a Councilmember with the vision, courage, and independence to do things differently. politico.com/news/magazine/…

Our newly expanded website is now live! Check it out at housingnarrativelab.org and learn more about how we can work with you to tell the real story of why housing is out of reach for so many of our neighbors.