Housing Justice: Policy Tools for Transformative Change - the 5Ps

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...

Radical Imagination Exercise

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...

Race & Housing: Key Concepts and Frameworks

The intersection of race and housing can seem so multifaceted that it can be intimidating to analyze. Outlining key concepts and frameworks for examining housing as a racial justice issue, this powerpoint investigates the traces of the past today...

Steps for Writing a Policy: A story & an activity

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...

Mapping Opportunity and Segregation in California

Looking for interactive mapping tools that show the stark connection between segregation and opportunity in California neighborhoods? This powerpoint showcases a mapping tool developed by OBI that highlights opportunity disparities as it correlates...

Mapping and Storytelling of our Histories of Home

How do we understand our own histories of home? How do these histories intersect with other people's histories of home? What can our histories of home teach us about systems? This workshop invites participants to examine their personal histories and...

Hello Housing: Housing Program Implementation 2021

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...

Arts-Based Research Methods for Housing Justice

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...