A Solution to the Housing Crisis: Social Housing For All: A Vision For Thriving Communities, Renter Power, and Racial Justice

A Solution to the Housing Crisis: Social Housing For All: (link to full paper) A Vision For Thriving Communities, Renter Power, and Racial Justice

Social Housing For All (Link to Video): A Vision For Thriving Communities, Renter Power, and Racial Justice

To create a more equitable housing system, we must massively expand social housing: a public option for housing that is permanently affordable, protected from the private market, and publicly owned or under democratic community control. All levels of government must create public, non- profit means of housing finance, construction, management, and ownership to counter real estate speculation—rather than using our public funds to enrich for-profit speculators, private developers, and corporate landlords. Government policy should develop and maintain social housing by employing organized labor and creating union jobs. And we must ensure that systems of democratic accountability center low-income communities of color, renters, and the most marginalized residents in decision-making and control over resources. The implementation of social housing must redress inequity and exclusion; only through accountability to marginalized communities will social housing programs truly serve their interests