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HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT: CHICAGO, ATLANTA and NEW ORLEANS THREE CITIES FIGHT BACK

Posted by familycourtreform06 on January 16, 2008

 

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Date: Thursday January 17, 2008

Time: 3:00 PM EST

•Every year from 2.5 to 3.5 million people in United States are homeless, another 2 million are living in severely inadequate housing; more than half of low- income households spend more than 50% of their income on housing.
•Less than 30% of housing considered is considered affordable.
•It is estimated that at least 32% of those who are low income and have housing problems are children.
•Single mothers are at the “greatest disadvantage”, an estimated 20 million spending half of their incomes on housing
• There are 2 million few low cost affordable housing units than the number of poor households needing these units.
Join the US Human Rights Network as we provide an update on the housing crisis in the United States, we will examine in detail what is taking place in Chicago, Atlanta and New Orleans. This will be an opportunity to get informed and take action to what is taking place nationally and how member organizations are fighting back locally.
CHICAGO
Willie JR. Flemming is a Cabrini Green Resident/organizer/documentarian/website designer and researcher with the Coalition to Protect Public Housing. Flemming presented testimony before the UN Office of the High Commission on Human Rights last year. He is currently the Chairperson for the Hip Hop congress Community Chapter in Chicago which deals with issues of social and economic injustice using music as a platform to unite the people.
ATLANTA
Terence Courtney, Coordinator for the Atlanta Jobs with Justice (JWJ). The Atlanta JWJ is coordinating the Riders’ Union, although the leaders stress their main tactic is empowering others and educating them about how to have an effective voice through collective organizing. Atlanta JWJ has been actively organizing with public housing tenant associations, with the belief that housing, transit and health care are all human rights.
NEW ORLEANS
Kali Akuno is an organizer with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), a Black human rights organization. He is based in Oakland, California where he founded and directed the School of Social Justice and Community Development (SSJCD). He is currently spearheading the Coalition To Stop The Demolition in New Orleans.

 

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One Response to “HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT: CHICAGO, ATLANTA and NEW ORLEANS THREE CITIES FIGHT BACK”

  1. dmd said

    January 16, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    Why is it that you have to have someone from OAKLAND in response to what is happening in NEW ORLEANS. People in California DO NOT understand what is going on in New Orleans.

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