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Black Detroiters Say With Unified Voice, ‘Normal’ Housing Practices are Not Enough

March 9, 2023

By Gloria Chan

Kea Mathis is a community organizer for Detroit People’s Platform fighting for racial justice and equity for low-income Black Detroiters. As a Black woman and a mother, she is deeply affected by returning citizen issues, housing issues, and issues that impact the Black community. In this series, “Women of Color on the Front Lines,” made in collaboration with Shelterforce, we hear from women of color who are working on the front lines of housing justice.

She Never Saw Herself as an ‘Impacted’ Person on Housing Issues. Then She Had An ‘Empowerment Moment.’

March 8, 2022

By Gloria Chan

Housing activist from Louisiana Omari Ho-Sang tells her story about being empowered by the realization that she was an impacted person – not just an advocate.

She Was Looking for Housing Assistance and Found a Seat at the Table to Make Change

December 17, 2021

By Gloria Chan

Donna Price, an organizer with Detroit Affordable Housing Task Force, shares her experience as an impacted person living in a homeless shelter who was determined to help others find housing, too.

No One Should Have to Choose Between Their Home or Their Health

February 23, 2021

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

No thinker, philosopher or theologian can tell you whether sickness or homelessness is more frightening. With the onset of the pandemic, millions of Americans have now experienced the fear of…

Housing is Essential for All of Us

October 26, 2020

By Cristina Rayas

Housing is essential for all of us. This year, we are facing a new stage in our decades-long housing crisis. Now, more than ever, we are having unprecedented national conversations…

Lean in to solve the housing crisis

October 7, 2020

By Sharisse Tracey

As a kid growing up in Southern California in the 70’s and 80’s I was aware that there were homeless people. At that time, it seemed like a small group…

Americans Are Ready to Make Housing for All a Reality

August 5, 2020

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

Ever since the COVID-19 crisis, this country has been debating its many dysfunctions, like a family trying to face its deeply unresolved core problems. The temporary solutions that have been…

Convening of the Housing Narrative Project: Re-centering the Conversation About Housing Around Love, Belonging, and Human Dignity

March 4, 2020

By Michael Jackson

The year-long Housing Narrative Project is rooted in a bottom-up approach that listens to the voices of the most impacted and those working on the front lines of the housing…

How the west was won–California leading the way on rent control

February 10, 2020

By Sharisse Tracey

On the heels of learning that Southern California residents now need to earn over  $100,000 a year to purchase a median two-bedroom home costing over half million dollars in Los…

Welcome Home: Navigating the holidays without a home

December 19, 2019

By Michael Jackson

“What are you and your son doing for the holidays?” This question, innocently asked, is an emotional minefield for me and families like mine across the country coping with homelessness….

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