Housing Justice

What do teachers need to know about histories of housing injustice and how these impact the present? Designed to educate teachers, this powerpoint dives into the how and why of our current racialized housing geographies and discusses the fight for...

How do we go from a vision to action? With a focus on policy change, this powerpoint showcases a framework called "the 5Ps" which aims to create policies that will advance transformative change in housing. The powerpoint contains a discussion...

A focus on resistance and organizing work is absolutely key for understanding people's agency and maintaining hope within the oppressive housing landscape. This powerpoint features a compilation of organizing work towards housing justice, including...

How can we radically imagine a racially just future? Radical imagination has a key role to play in movements towards justice. This guided visualization takes students on a journey to a transformed future where housing justice has been won. The...

How can we transform housing systems so that people who have been left out are in roles of decision maker and owner? How do we actualize equitable solutions while still operating within a racialized housing system? Led by people of color, the East...

Writing policy is writing the law. But what are the steps to writing policy? Can anyone write it? How does a new policy go from an idea to a law? This powerpoint showcases a story of tenants and a tenants' rights organization writing a rent control...

How do we go from a vision to action? This presentation hones in on housing justice and policy solutions for the Bay Area's housing crisis. It examines the concept of belonging which would entail having the opportunity to participate in the design of...

This powerpoint details the work that the Bay Area-based organization Hello Housing has done focusing on increasing homeownership among communities of color to promote stability, center equity, and cultivate community. This powerpoint walks through...

What does art have to do with it? This powerpoint highlights arts-based research methods for housing justice, which brings together structural analyses, people's lived experiences, and the examination of existing campaigns and organizing work. It...

Students increasingly know about the history of redlining as a system of racial exclusion. But what role did capitalism play? And is it possible to have capitalism and not have racial exclusion? This four-lesson unit invites students to grapple with...

How can we envision our community as thriving in a future that embodies racial equity and belonging? How might the framework of Afrofuturism help us get there? This unit has elementary, middle, and high school students dive into histories of housing...