Hi friend,
This newsletter contains updates from our partners at HouseUS, a national housing justice fund supporting organizing and tenant-led change at the local, state, and federal levels, and the Homes Guarantee campaign:
In November, the Homes Guarantee campaign will host a convening of its tenant leadership team, the Tenant Reckoning: The Rent is Too Damn High, in Washington DC. The campaign is looking to close a $300,000 funding gap before year end, which will support local organizations' continued federal advocacy and deepen the campaign's basebuilding strategy. To catch up with what the campaign has been doing and building read the below:
- The Rent Revolution Is Coming - New York Times: KC Tenants is building renter power and responding to economic anxiety by strengthening community across homeowners, tenants, and manufactured home residents.
- Tenant Organizers Call On Biden To Tackle Rent Inflation by Revolving Door Project: The grassroots Homes Guarantee campaign has an executive branch playbook to protect tenants and dislodge the power of landlords over federal housing policy.
Upcoming Events
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Resources and Member News
- Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why by ProPublica: The software’s design and growing reach have raised questions among real estate and legal experts about whether RealPage has birthed a new kind of cartel that allows the nation’s largest landlords to indirectly coordinate pricing, potentially in violation of federal law.
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Celebrate Funders for Housing and Opportunity’s 5th anniversary by soaking up the lessons learned since their founding by Stanford Social Innovation Review: The article underscores collaborative approaches to systems change that incorporate narrative change, policy advocacy and organizing and what commitments philanthropy can make to address entrenched systemic inequality in the housing market.
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In East Boston, a big move to keep renters in their homes by The Boston Globe: Hyams Foundation grantees and the city partner together to buy $47million portfolio of rental properties in bid to combat displacement.
Screentime and Snack Recommendations
Music feeding my soul
- I'm a Drifter - Dolly Parton
- Vegas (From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ELVIS)- Doja Cat
- That's How I Got to Memphis - Charley Crockett
- Tití Me Preguntó - Bad Bunny
Multimedia helping me thrive
- Abbott Elementary Season Two, Episode 6 - The Halloween Episode
- KevOnStage Studios Black Card Off Layaway Season 1 & 2
- The Run-Up -Episode 3 -The Republic
Snacks for home or your office
- 1-4 bowls of cereal depending on your mood
- Forager Cashew Milk Yogurt
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