Our ED is running his first marathon in a little over six weeks and is raising money to support our work to advance racial and economic justice. Every dollar helps!
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Trump's fascist takeover of DC "sets the stage for rounding up folks who are homeless, folks with mental health issues, folks who are disabled, & instead of helping them, forcing them into detention camps & institutions." @jesserbnwtzrollingstone.com/politics/po…
🚨 STATEMENT on Trump’s Attack on D.C.: Banishment is Not a Solution to Homelessness.
Serious leaders must reject Trump's approach & invest in implementing real solutions at scale 🔽
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Statement: Trump’s Attack on D.C.: Banishment is Not a Solution to Homelessness.
In the lower-right corner, a small logo reads: Alliance for Housing Justice.
ALT On Sunday, President Trump posted a horrifying screed announcing plans to force all of D.C.’s unhoused residents to “move out, IMMEDIATELY” & send them “FAR from the Capital.”
W/ HUD reporting a national record of 771,480 people unhoused on a single night last year—including 5,616 unhoused people in D.C., over 80% of whom were Black—vilifying & rounding up our cities’ most vulnerable is racist, cruel, irrational & dangerous.
If the goal is to solve homelessness, forced mass displacement & criminalization do the opposite: they deepen trauma, erect barriers to housing & work, worsen racial disparities, and put women, people w/ disabilities, LGBTQ people, veterans, & other underserved groups at greater risk.
Serious leaders must reject Trump's approach & invest in implementing real solutions at scale: build & preserve social & public housing; expand permanent supportive housing & services; & enact strong tenant protections so residents aren’t pushed into homelessness in the 1st place
"With so much funding at stake, Hawai‘i Appleseed is working to raise public awareness about how QAP works and how the community can be involved."
Thankful for our partnership with @HIAppleseed and their leadership on this critical issue.
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Our #HousingMobility2025 award ceremony will honor the brilliant 45-year career of @ekjulian1 and the memory of Alex Polikoff, two civil rights champions. Register for the Conference to honor their dedication and achievements! shorturl.at/Fpreb
Check out our explainer on a proposed rule that HUD published yesterday that threatens to roll back nearly 50 years of progress. prrac.org/what-you-need-to-k…
Excellent piece from our Board Chair @OlatiJ on the weaponization of Title VI and how attacks on racial equity are unmoored from what the Supreme Court actually held in SFFA.
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“It’s critical we have disparate impact to fight against race discrimination,” said Thomas Silverstein, executive director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, who is watching at least a dozen housing and lending cases that could fall apart without it.
For decades, the fed’l gov’t used data analysis - known as disparate impact - to ferret out discrimination, winning cases and reaching settlements in housing, education, policing more. Now the Trump admin is unwinding those cases. w/
@juleswapowashingtonpost.com/business/…
The principle has been fundamental to ending “practices that perpetuate inequalities in our society that have their roots in Jim Crow, redlining and the state-sanctioned discrimination of the past.”
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Registration for #HousingMobility2025 is now open! Join us in Chicago this fall for one, two, or three days of learning, connecting, and collaborating. Register now! tinyurl.com/28vbhskt
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Byline below says "By Thomas Silverstein"
The featured graphic is a split image showing Donald Trump in color on the left and Lyndon B. Johnson in black and white on the right, both facing each other against a neutral background.
“This order aims to destroy the foundation of civil rights protections in this country, and it will have a devastating effect on equity for Black people and other communities of color,” said Dariely Rodriguez (@LawyersComm)
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"Several major cities and housing organizations situated within them — including Boston, Cleveland and Seattle — have expressed alarm about the proposal"
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Good time at #HousingIs2025, ending w The Power of Place, Helping Housing Mobility Programs Transform Educational Outcomes. HCV families should be able to choose a home based on their preferred school--just like higher-income families do. Mobility programs can make this happen!
Our Executive Director @T_Silverstein explains why the Trump administration's attack on our civil rights statutes' disparate impact standard is contrary to law, fairness & commonsense in Slate.
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