Today we joined 200 orgs (!) on a full-page @USAToday ad calling on @POTUS & Congress to:
✅ Cancel rent and enact immediate debt relief to homeowners and renters 🏘.
Text HOMES to 40649 & sign the petition:#CancelRent #StopEvictions #HousingistheCure
uwunited.com/cancel-rent
3 in 4 New Mexicans who lost employment this year report poor health. They’re worried about paying for rent and household expenses, like electricity and internet - which they need to look for a new job @ChainbreakerSF #HousingIsTheCure #HousingIsHealth #HealthEquity
"COVID-19 has torn the band-aid off" ... Housing insecurity has long plagued Santa Fe and cities around the country #HousingIsTheCure #HousingIsHealth #COVID19
💚✨TY Alison Johnson @HJL_Atlanta closing us out + THANK YOU to all the incredible speakers, organizers, and all of those who tuned in and made this powerful event happen💚✨
We'll share a recording of the event soon + in the meantime, TAKE ACTION #HousingIsTheCure
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💯💯💯"We can't ask people to stay home if people have no home to stay in."👀👀👀 @MauriceWFP
#HousingIsTheCure
NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO RETREAT
"In the immediate, we need harm mitigation...to address the deep harm of the previous administration. But it can’t end there. We want to think above just survival—we want to THRIVE." @MauriceWFP on the need to fight for bold, transformative, executive action #HousingIsTheCure
"The incoming Biden-Harris admin is a door, not a destination. We have our work cut out for us over the next 4-8 yrs & we have to be ready to pivot from this to the fight ahead of us...We can't take our foot off the gas any time soon"
@MauriceWFP #HousingIsTheCure
🔥🔥LA VIVIENDA ES LA CURA🔥🔥
@ShakearaMingo of @_ONEDC, Pam Phan @ourcityRTTC, & John Washington @PeoplesAction introducing the #HousingIsTheCure Policy Platform
Check out the Executive Action Platform:EnglishSpanish
humanimpact.org/housingisthecu… humanimpact.org/housingisthecu…
5- Our limited future orientation: "We can touch the future through the children and the planet... If we recognized that all children are our children, we wouldn’t even think about evicting families." #HousingIsTheCure
3- "In this country, we are ahistorical. We act as if the present were disconnected from the past and as if the current distribution of advantage and disadvantage were just a happenstance." #HousingIsTheCure
2- The myth of meritocracy: "Many people who are successful have worked hard. Many have worked just as hard or harder who will never make it because of an uneven playing field that has been structured by racism, sexism, heterosexism, capitalism and the like."
#HousingIsTheCure
1- A narrow focus on the individual, which makes systems and structures invisible or seemingly irrelevant #HousingIsTheCure
TRUTH ➡️ Dr @CamaraJones continuing to lay out why #HousingIsTheCure, & sharing the 7 barriers that are deeply ingrained in our national psyche that we must address now and into the future:
💎COULD IT BE MORE CLEAR?💎
"Clearly, at this time, one of the main needs we have is for people to be able to shelter safely in place at home. To go against that & put people out in the middle of this raging pandemic is not what we need to do."
Dr. @CamaraJones #HousingIsTheCure
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"Why would we not cancel rent?
Why would we not extend the eviction moratorium?
Why would we not provide people with a survival check so that they can shelter in place at home?"
-@CamaraJones #HousingIsTheCure
.@CamaraJones laying out the 3 core principles for #healthequity:
➡️We must value all individuals and populations equally
➡️We must recognize and rectify historical injustices
➡️We must provide resources according to need
#HousingIsTheCure
"And when we want to talk about health equity, we have to understand that health equity is about the assurance of the conditions for optimal health for all people. One of those core conditions is housing." @CamaraJones #HousingIsTheCure
😍We're beaming over here 😍
Our very own Sophie Simon-Ortiz @PHAwakened now introducing the incredible Dr @CamaraJones #HousingIsTheCure
➡️if you missed it earlier, here's a link to join the livestream:
facebook.com/watch/live/?v=…
💚🎶@liltunessf now sharing her beautiful music - we are here for this song!
🎵HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT🎵
#HousingIsTheCure
+ check out Liliana's work at
liltunes.com
"The fed. moratorium must apply to ALL renters, & at the same time this is only a public health mitigation strategy - it will not address the larger eviction crisis." @emilyabenfer on the need to cancel back rent + extending the moratorium is only the 1st step #HousingIsTheCure
"Eviction creates barrier after barrier to employment, housing, good schools, safe neighborhoods. In the long term, this can have severe physical and mental health effects." @emilyabenfer #HousingIsTheCure
"Once evictions start to occur, we see first a spread in #COVID19 cases and deaths and increased health inequities among people of color." @emilyabenfer
#HousingIsTheCure
+learn more about Emily's work:
law.wfu.edu/faculty/profil…
YES!!!! Decision makers and electeds:
✨"Get off your ASSets - the people need relief right now...we needed help yesterday." ✨
--Bishop D.B. Harper, speaking to how he & his family have been fighting evictions in Orlando #HousingIsTheCure
#HousingIsTheCure hosts sharing actions for individuals and orgs to take!!!
Join us 👇🏾
⚡ORGS SIGN ONTO THIS PLATFORM:⚡ACTIVISTS SIGN THIS PETITION:⚡GET UPDATES ON OUR JAN 7TH DAY OF ACTION: TEXT HOMES TO 33339
homesforall.me/CDCpetition homesforall.me/CDC_SignOnLett…
🔥WISDOM from Catherine Kennedy, calling for #HousingIsTheCure #HousingForAll: "To curb this pandemic, housing must be a part of the solution. It must be a sustainable solution that addresses the root causes of evictions" @NationalNurses
"We need solutions like rent cancellation + an extension of the federal eviction moratorium...if COVID has shown us anything, it is the huge social fractures that characterize our society." Catherine Kennedy, @NationalNurses
#HousingIsTheCure
"When a high percentage of income is devoted to rent, that often means that you’re cutting back on other necessities, such as food and medical expenses." @NationalNurses #HousingIsTheCure
"Health and housing are intimately related. Affordable housing is a fundamental human right and a functional pillar of health." Catherine Kennedy, @NationalNurses
#HousingIsTheCure
Catherine Kennedy, @NationalNurses speaking the particular impacts COVID-19 is having on BIPOC communities: "These are not numbers and statistics. These are human lives - people who are suffering tremendously because our country is failing them"
#HousingIsTheCure
LIVE now! Alison Johnson kicking us off: "We won't relive this history, but we will rewrite it - with our own authors, and our own illustrations." @ourcityrttc #HousingIsTheCure
😑Didn't have time to register?
➡️We're streaming live on facebook!
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