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*Map of Pittsburgh's racial housing policies and displacement of Black residents [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA8WsQY4ANI Pittsburgh's Housing Inequality and Affordability Shown in 15 Maps]   
 
*Map of Pittsburgh's racial housing policies and displacement of Black residents [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA8WsQY4ANI Pittsburgh's Housing Inequality and Affordability Shown in 15 Maps]   
 
*[https://ucsur.pitt.edu/files/center/UCSUR_White_Paper_Privatization_Housing_2022.pdf Pittsburgh’s Affordable Housing Crisis: Is Privatization the Solution?] Daniel McClymonds, Jackie Smith, Connor Chapman & Randall Taylor, Urban Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh (Research Report, 2022).
 
*[https://ucsur.pitt.edu/files/center/UCSUR_White_Paper_Privatization_Housing_2022.pdf Pittsburgh’s Affordable Housing Crisis: Is Privatization the Solution?] Daniel McClymonds, Jackie Smith, Connor Chapman & Randall Taylor, Urban Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh (Research Report, 2022).
*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gcg05HsNh-XAqFZMO7chWUtXCkCcQGAM/view?usp=sharing  “Corporate Investments in Single-Family residential properties in Allegheny County: Recent Impacts” University Center for Social and Urban Research White Paper]  
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*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gcg05HsNh-XAqFZMO7chWUtXCkCcQGAM/view?usp=sharing  “Corporate Investments in Single-Family residential properties in Allegheny County: Recent Impacts” University Center for Social and Urban Research White Paper] Sabina Deitrick & Chris Briem, April 2024.
Sabina Deitrick & Chris Briem, April 2024.
 
 
*[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zYHm8AmmUmoD3V1iDSV_WbbdE8MSFLei/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105397072359102689167&rtpof=true&sd=true What can Pennsylvania municipalities do to protect affordable housing and empower tenants?],Bob Damewood, Regional Housing Legal Services Slide presentation at 2024 Pittsburgh Peoples Assembly for Fair & Equitable Housing.
 
*[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zYHm8AmmUmoD3V1iDSV_WbbdE8MSFLei/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105397072359102689167&rtpof=true&sd=true What can Pennsylvania municipalities do to protect affordable housing and empower tenants?],Bob Damewood, Regional Housing Legal Services Slide presentation at 2024 Pittsburgh Peoples Assembly for Fair & Equitable Housing.
 
*[https://www.facebook.com/ywcapgh/videos/2109886172727089/ YWCA Conversations on Race--Housing Justice] May 2024 ''Program features Carl Redwood, Hill District Consensus Group, and Randall Taylor, Penn Plaza Support & Action Coalition & Human Rights City Alliance--provides background on racial discrimination in Pittsburgh's housing policies and solutions people are putting forward to put people before profits.''
 
*[https://www.facebook.com/ywcapgh/videos/2109886172727089/ YWCA Conversations on Race--Housing Justice] May 2024 ''Program features Carl Redwood, Hill District Consensus Group, and Randall Taylor, Penn Plaza Support & Action Coalition & Human Rights City Alliance--provides background on racial discrimination in Pittsburgh's housing policies and solutions people are putting forward to put people before profits.''

Revision as of 18:10, 16 May 2024

The Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance Housing Rights Working Group This working group supports the work of our regional Housing Justice Coalition Table. We aim to help expand awareness of the right to housing and how it impacts diverse neighborhoods and communities and to advance policy changes to expand access to affordable, quality housing and stable neighborhoods. This meeting will focus on planning for Fair Housing Month activities in April and ways to support rights protections for renters.


Recommended background:

Other Resources

  • PUSH, the documentary is a great overview of how global finance is making housing so unaffordable in cities around the world, and what people can do about it.
  • The related podcast, PushBack Talks is also an excellent source of information and analysis about this complex issue.
  • Biden/White House Blueprint for a Renters Bill of Rights (January 2023) --this "Blueprint" was issued as U.S. leaders anticipated mass evictions with the ending of COVID-19 rental assistance and eviction moratoriums. It was an inexpensive way for the federal government to appear to be taking action on this critically important problem. But we need to work to make these words meaningful in local policy.

Meetings Meets 1st Wednesday (in person) & 3rd Wednesdays (remote) at 5:30PM each month. June 5 meeting in Mellon Park Shelter (near Bakery Square)--Potluck food /picnic! For next Zoom meeting (Register here) All are welcome!