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Tenant Organizing and Advocacy Efforts
In our last blog post, tenant organizer Linda Soderstrom explained how she and 36 other tenants at her Minnesota housing complex fought back against an attempt by a new owner to evict tenants who were recipients of Section 8 vouchers. Soderstrom writes that her tenant group “stood up for the 2,500 of us and alleged Continue reading
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Crossroads at Penn: We Can Do Better Than This
By Linda Soderstrom, NLIHC Tenant Leaders Cohort Memberllsod.lindalee@gmail.com507.932.9908 In 2015, on a beautiful fall day, written notices were given under the kitchen doors of 698 units in a single afternoon. The notices said that no more county rehab programming or Section 8 housing choice vouchers would be accepted at Crossroads at Penn, located in a Continue reading
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Expanding Access to Housing for People with Disabilities through Universal Design
In our last post, we heard from Claudia Swaney, a disability and housing rights activist from Michigan. As Claudia explains, almost half of all extremely low-income renter households in Michigan are headed by seniors or people with disabilities, but the state lacks the units necessary to provide affordable housing for them. What’s more, the units Continue reading
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“They are building luxury apartments and condos, not low-income housing.”
Claudia Swaney is a disability rights and housing justice advocate in Michigan. She has personally faced the impact of rising rents. As Claudia explains, “I have moved a lot due to high rents, and renovations have increased my rent from $185 to $205 this year alone. My voucher amount is still the same.” Claudia has Continue reading
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Section 8 Housing
In our last blog post, Yvonne Farrell, a very low-income tenant and senior living in Washington D.C., wrote about her experiences facing housing instability. Yvonne explained that she gets “more run-around and rejection than rent assistance” but she believes that “HUD, with the current focus on eviction prevention, is going to come up with a Continue reading
On the Home Front 