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A vision of quality, safe, and affordable housing combined with social programs to address houseless experiences to ensure everyone has a home, regardless of race, income, or citizenship status.
Access to safe, stable housing is a fundamental human right. Housing justice seeks to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to attain affordable and quality housing, regardless of their circumstances.
Krimmel, Jacob
These findings suggest redlining impacted neighborhood housing supply and population independent of pre-war patterns of racial segregation.
Urban Institute
The financial health of cities depends on financially secure residents.
Village Preservation Blog
A seemingly intractable housing affordability crisis has allowed YIMBYism (“Yes In my Backyard”) to emerge as an increasingly loud and politically influential voice in urban redevelopment debates in our neighborhoods, city, and country.
Hoffman, Jeremy S., Vivek Shandas, and Nicholas Pendleton
This study reveals that historical housing policies may, in fact, be directly responsible for disproportionate exposure to current heat events.
The Conversation
Housing solutions must focus on addressing housing as a human right
Radical in Progress
This study guide was written by Clara Mangali and edited by Kendall Wack and Katya Zabelski to explain the housing question proposed by Freidrich Engels in 1872.
Radical in Progress
Using the geographic case study of New York, the authors use this section to demonstrate that at their core, “housing movements are popular struggles by those for whom housing means home, not real estate.”
High Country News
This interview with Indigenous housing activist Jackie Fielder dives into the colonial roots of our modern day housing market.
LA Times
In a twist on the term “NIMBY,” “YIMBYs,” or “Yes, in my backyard” organizations have sprung up across California, and the YIMBYs argue their efforts will benefit income-qualified people of color statewide.
Energy bills are 3x higher in climate-impacted communities.
A movement to decentralize the energy system by centering communities.
The empirical and qualitative measurement of access to the energy system to prioritize the inclusion of climate-impacted communities.
Achieving just social and economic participation in the energy system, while remediating social, economic, and health burdens in climate-impacted communities.
A set of social, economic, and environmental principles established at the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit.
A vision of quality, safe, and affordable housing combined with social programs to address houseless experiences to ensure everyone has a home, regardless of race, income, or citizenship status.