Courtney Cooperman

🧵Across the country, housing was on the ballot in this election: @NLIHC's @ourhomesvotes campaign tracked 100+ housing & homelessness ballot measures! Let's celebrate these victories for housing justice, and congratulate the organizers who made them possible.

Washington, DC right now. This is fascism. Eviction of 62 homeless encampments start tonight. If you don’t live in DC I need you to call your congresspeople and tell them to stop this racist, authotarian power grab.

The @OurHomesVotes ballot measures report is hot off the press! ⬇️ Learn how state & local resources for affordable homes, tenant protections, zoning/land use, and homelessness fared at the ballot box in November — and what advocates can learn from successful campaigns. 🗳️🏠✅

This Thanksgiving season, I’m grateful for the long-awaited opening of the Aston! It was an honor to attend the Aston’s ribbon-cutting with DC leaders & community members. As of yesterday, 25 individuals had moved into the Aston, with 25 more anticipated before the holiday.

In Camden, ME, voters overwhelmingly (77%) approved a zoning change that will allow for the conversion of a schoolhouse into an apartment building with residences on the ground floor, paving the way for new affordable homes for teachers.

CO towns also voted to facilitate housing development: Snowmass voters approved a 79-unit workforce housing project. Chaffee County voters authorized the housing authority to maintain revenues that allow it to proceed with a mixed-use development including transitional housing.

🧵Across the country, housing was on the ballot in this election: @NLIHC's @ourhomesvotes campaign tracked 100+ housing & homelessness ballot measures! Let's celebrate these victories for housing justice, and congratulate the organizers who made them possible.

Voters in Aspen, CO, supported two separate measures to extend its 1% real estate transfer tax and 0.45% sales tax, both of which provide revenues for affordable housing programs.