Alliance for Housing Justice

Alliance for Housing Justice

@aforhj.org

🤝 🏘️ Building & supporting infrastructure for a powerful, grassroots-led movement to win safe, affordable, equitable housing for all. 🔗 https://linkin.bio/aforhj

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Poverty & Race Research Action Council
@prrac.bsky.social

And...we have a second post! Also from @tsilverstein.bsky.social (that might happen quite a bit) & this time explaining 3 ways of taking the scaffolding of Montgomery County, MD's social housing program & building a program more aligned with social housing principles like those of @aforhj.org.

prracperspective.ghost.ioHow to Make the MoCo Social Housing Model Really Good in Three StepsBy Thomas Silverstein, President/Executive Director, Poverty & Race Research Action Council A few years ago, the fairly wonky work that Montgomery County, Maryland had begun to develop mixed-income h...
Alliance for Housing Justice
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“HUD continues to push the boundaries…prioritizing transitional housing & treatment-first facilities over evidence-based strategies like Housing First w/ supportive services” Full article from @invisiblepeople.tv: invisiblepeople.tv/hud-funding-delays-are-already-hurting-the-nonprofit-sector/

invisiblepeople.tvHUD Funding Delays Are Already Hurting The Nonprofit SectorDisruptions across three HUD funding streams leave nonprofits with delays and funding gaps that put homeless people’s housing at risk.
Alliance for Housing Justice
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Today, the second Monday of October, is #IndigenousPeoplesDay. We celebrate Indigenous survival, resistance & a future beyond the white supremacist myths this country tells about itself—no matter how hard reactionary forces to try erase our history.

Alliance for Housing Justice
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“We will be forced to reduce staffing by approximately 70-80% in FY 2027, which will result in the discontinuance of essentially all criminal investigations conducted by our Office of Investigations” —FHFA’s Office of the Inspector General

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

Bill Pulte Guts the IG Office That Investigated Him talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

talkingpointsmemo.comBill Pulte Guts the IG Office That Investigated HimCuts Would Put IG Office Out of Business In a move that...

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Poverty & Race Research Action Council
@prrac.bsky.social

Worth reading this AP piece on the impact of the Trump Administration's attacks on Housing First. It is helpful to hear the insights of unhoused folks, services providers & permanent supportive housing operators.

abcnews.comTrump’s shift from 'Housing First' causing upheaval for homelessness programsThe Trump administration is shifting federal policy and dollars away from the “Housing First” approach that has been at the heart of federal homelessness policy
Alliance for Housing Justice
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An 87-year-old was evicted via stretcher from her Madrid home last week. Today, thousands of tenants are still camped in the city's main plaza & Spain's government has already proposed banning evictions of vulnerable tenants until 2030. Tenant organizing works. www.reuters.com/world/protes...

reuters.comProtesters camped out across Spain demand passage of housing measuresThousands of protesters camped out ​on Madrid's main square and in other Spanish cities demanded on Wednesday that parliament swiftly approve ‌new measures to protect tenants and curb the country's ac...
Alliance for Housing Justice
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Great piece from @ryanbiller.bsky.social exploring the many forces behind America’s housing crisis & the solutions being pursued here & abroad. At the center is a matter of political will: can the US move beyond treating housing primarily as a commodity & toward treating it as a human right?

damemagazine.comWhat If We Treated Housing Like a Human Right? - Dame MagazineAmerica’s housing crisis has made buying or renting a home unaffordable for millions. Here’s what the U.S. can learn from countries that do housing differently.
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Evictions are a public health crisis. New research on Black mothers & pregnant women in Detroit suggests nearly half of their evictions happen illegally, with major health & safety impacts. We need proactive enforcement, public education & on-demand legal help. theconversation.com/black-moms-a...

theconversation.comBlack moms and pregnant women forced out of their homes in metro Detroit face health and safety threatsDetroit had 20,370 eviction cases filed in 2025. But evictions that do not go through the formal court process are not included in the city’s official eviction data.

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Thomas Silverstein
@tsilverstein.bsky.social

The continuing violation theory of when injury occurs (across all manner of causes of action) is grounded in unambiguous Supreme Court precedent. HUD has no authority to disregard it when deciding which administrative complaints to exercise jurisdiction over.

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“All this does is provide a pass to the bad actors who decided not to follow the law and locked people with disabilities out of housing in the process.” @nikitrabailey.bsky.social, @natfairhouse.bsky.social

smartcitiesdive.comFair housing construction accessibility complaints now have a deadline, HUD saysAccessibility claims related to multifamily building design and construction must be filed within one year of the initial certificate of occupancy, the new guidance says.
Alliance for Housing Justice
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“All this does is provide a pass to the bad actors who decided not to follow the law and locked people with disabilities out of housing in the process.” @nikitrabailey.bsky.social, @natfairhouse.bsky.social

smartcitiesdive.comFair housing construction accessibility complaints now have a deadline, HUD saysAccessibility claims related to multifamily building design and construction must be filed within one year of the initial certificate of occupancy, the new guidance says.
Alliance for Housing Justice
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We need a government that takes our rights seriously & actually fights to defend them.

States Newsroom@statesnewsroom.com

The only fair housing organization in the Dakotas has furloughed some of its staff due to the delay of a crucial federal grant. via @northdakotamonitor.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/dako...

newsfromthestates.comDakotas’ only fair housing group furloughs part of staff due to funding gapThe only fair housing organization in the Dakotas has furloughed some of its staff due to the delay of a crucial federal grant.

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National Homelessness Law Center
@homelesslaw.bsky.social

Joe Lonsdale, billionaire co-founder of Palantir, has been shaping Trump's policies to arrest homeless people and throw them in detention camps because he "doesn't want to be 'bothered' by the poor who might be perturbed by the inequality he perpetuates." www.arcamax.com/politics/fro...

arcamax.comBillionaires Playing Cowboys ... At Our ExpenseLet's all gather 'round the campfire, Buckaroos and let Ol' Cactus Jim here tell you about some of today's hardy, hard-working cowboys. Yes, those manly men who live free-spirited, yippy-ti-yi-yo,…
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A judge has blocked HUD’s attempt to impose ‘anti-woke’ ideological litmus tests on #FairHousing grants, finding the agency “had not shown why such a major shift was necessary.”

thehill.comJudge blocks Trump administration plan to restructure housing grantsA federal judge on Wednesday halted the Trump administration’s plan to overhaul a decades-old grant program targeting housing discrimination, siding with fair housing groups that argued the changes…
Alliance for Housing Justice
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🎁🔗 Gift link to a great-op ed from @danielsharfstein.bsky.social & @serkinc.bsky.social: We can’t solve a national housing crisis with deregulation alone. Housing isn't just another commodity, "it's essential infrastructure for a functioning society" and we should treat it that way!

nytimes.comOpinion | We Know How to Solve the Housing Crisis. We Just Have to Remember. (Gift Article)World War II proves the government can intervene directly to fix the housing crisis.

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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️
@powerswitchaction.org

Our new release, "The Hidden Heist," is a massive research project exposing how corporations have pushed state bans that block the things our communities need to thrive. We traced their tactics across states, industries and decades—here's what we found👇 www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/th...

powerswitchaction.orgThe Hidden HeistHow Corporations Push State Bans to Keep Us Broke and Hijack Our Democracy

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Bright D Limm 임대중
@bdlimm.myatproto.social

"Rent-stabilized portfolios in or at risk of foreclosure give tenants outsized leverage to fight for the ownership of our homes. "Rather than addressing distress through deregulation and rent hikes, organized tenants can chart a new course by taking these homes out of the private market for good."

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"Every tenant deserves a rent freeze & more" ⤵️ thenation.com/article/activism/new-york-rent-freeze-analysis-next-steps/

Alliance for Housing Justice
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"Disparate impact gives us a shared way to ask the hard questions. Does a policy measure what it claims to measure? Are vendors testing their tools for discriminatory effects?" shelterforce.org/2026/07/08/how-hud-is-seeking-to-make-fighting-housing-discrimination-even-harder/#0

shelterforce.orgHow HUD Is Seeking to Make Fighting Housing Discrimination Even Harder — ShelterforceHUD's proposal to eliminate the use of disparate impact analysis will remove another crucial tool for enforcing fair housing law.