February 2025
Since the Trump Administration took office, we’ve experienced an authoritarian grab by the Executive branch of the federal government aimed at stripping away the full humanity of Black and brown communities, Indigenous people, migrant neighbors, disabled people, and trans and gender non-conforming folks. These attempts are meant to create chaos, confusion, and hopelessness. Their goal is to rollback our progress towards justice and liberation and, in turn, dismantle our ability to take collective action to pursue our goals.
We will not fall for it. Members of the National Coalition for Housing Justice will not be thwarted in our pursuit of housing justice. Thriving communities where everyone has a safe and secure home is essential to our well-being. We remain committed to building systems that place people over profit and prioritize housing as central to our dignity.
For those of us working in housing and homelessness, our collective work requires us to both block the current threats to unhoused people, housing programs and homelessness services and build the housing future we want that includes tenants’ rights and protections, creating a federal rental assistance guarantee, and deploying social housing across more venues.
It’s going to take all of us – individuals, activists, nonprofits, philanthropy, and organizers – working together in unprecedented ways to block and build right now. We must mobilize together to stop and end the real threats that are activated by this Administration. It will require us to act with urgency when the government acts to further criminalize people living outside. But it will also require that we don’t give up on the work of our north star for an alternative world where housing and racial justice is a reality.
Together we can manifest housing justice for all.