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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.
Why is housing justice important?
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.
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Persistence of Prejudice
Krimmel, Jacob
These findings suggest redlining impacted neighborhood housing supply and population independent of pre-war patterns of racial segregation.
The Cost of Eviction and Unpaid Bills of Financially Insecure Families for City Budgets
Urban Institute
The financial health of cities depends on financially secure residents.
YIMBY vs NIMBY: Looking Past Labels
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.
The Effects of Historical Housing Policies on Resident Exposure to Intra-Urban Heat
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.
Housing is both a human right and a profitable asset, and that’s the problem.
The Conversation
Housing solutions must focus on addressing housing as a human right
In Defense of Housing
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.
Housing Movements of New York
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.”
Is it time to decolonize the housing market?
High Country News
This interview with Indigenous housing activist Jackie Fielder dives into the colonial roots of our modern day housing market.
Housing bill’s ‘white privilege problem’ YIMBY groups called dismissive
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.
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Energy Burden
Energy bills are 3x higher in climate-impacted communities.
Energy Democracy
A movement to decentralize the energy system by centering communities.
Energy Equity
The empirical and qualitative measurement of access to the energy system to prioritize the inclusion of climate-impacted communities.
Energy Justice
Achieving just social and economic participation in the energy system, while remediating social, economic, and health burdens in climate-impacted communities.
Environmental Justice
A set of social, economic, and environmental principles established at the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit.
Housing Justice
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.