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	Our [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/d/de/Human_Rights_Housing_Strategy_and_Action_Plan_Discussion_Draft_April_2023.pdf '''Pittsburgh Human Rights-based Housing Strategy and Action Plan'''] emerged from months of discussions and input sessions with local housing advocates and residents impacted by the commodification of housing. This document will help to guide us in transforming ideas into formal commitments for action by policy leaders in the city and county. Part of this involves broadening public awareness and mobilizing community group allies to understand housing as a human right and a ''social good'' and to build commitment and political will for the big changes needed to realize housing rights for everyone.		Our [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/d/de/Human_Rights_Housing_Strategy_and_Action_Plan_Discussion_Draft_April_2023.pdf '''Pittsburgh Human Rights-based Housing Strategy and Action Plan'''] emerged from months of discussions and input sessions with local housing advocates and residents impacted by the commodification of housing. This document will help to guide us in transforming ideas into formal commitments for action by policy leaders in the city and county. Part of this involves broadening public awareness and mobilizing community group allies to understand housing as a human right and a ''social good'' and to build commitment and political will for the big changes needed to realize housing rights for everyone.
		+	*Have you seen our [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/8/87/Bill_of_Rights_Trifold-Final.pdf Tenant Bill of Rights]?

	== Recommended Reading ==		== Recommended Reading ==

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 *[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://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.
+*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gcg05HsNh-XAqFZMO7chWUtXCkCcQGAM/view?usp=sharing  “Corporate Investments in Single-Family residential properties in Allegheny County: Recent Impacts”] (April 2024) by Sabina Deitrick & Chris Briem of the University Center for Social and Urban Research
 *[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) This program featured Carl Redwood (Hill District Consensus Group) and Randall Taylor (Penn Plaza Support & Action Coalition & Human Rights City Alliance) and provides background on racial discrimination in Pittsburgh's housing policies, as well as solutions people are putting forward to put people before profits.

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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.
 *[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) This program featured Carl Redwood (Hill District Consensus Group) and Randall Taylor (Penn Plaza Support & Action Coalition & Human Rights City Alliance) and provides background on racial discrimination in Pittsburgh's housing policies, as well as solutions people are putting forward to put people before profits.
 == Additional Resources ==

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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.
 *[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.''
 == Additional Resources ==

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 Our [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/d/de/Human_Rights_Housing_Strategy_and_Action_Plan_Discussion_Draft_April_2023.pdf '''Pittsburgh Human Rights-based Housing Strategy and Action Plan'''] emerged from months of discussions and input sessions with local housing advocates and residents impacted by the commodification of housing. This document will help to guide us in transforming ideas into formal commitments for action by policy leaders in the city and county. Part of this involves broadening public awareness and mobilizing community group allies to understand housing as a human right and a ''social good'' and to build commitment and political will for the big changes needed to realize housing rights for everyone.
+== Recommended Reading ==
 *[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).
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 *[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.''
-'''Other Resources'''
+== Additional Resources ==
 *[https://www.pushthefilm.com/ 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.
 :* [https://make-the-shift.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Directives-Updated-Dec-9.pdf The Shift Directives: From Financialized to Human Rights-based Housing] provides a road map for addressing the global housing crisis, beginning at the local level.

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−	~~'''Recommended background reading:'''~~	+

	*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA8WsQY4ANI Pittsburgh's Housing Inequality and Affordability Shown in 15 Maps]		*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA8WsQY4ANI Pittsburgh's Housing Inequality and Affordability Shown in 15 Maps]

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	The '''Housing Rights Working Group''' supports the work of the [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Housing_Justice_Coalition_Table Pittsburgh Housing Justice Table]. We aim to raise awareness that [https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-housing/human-right-adequate-housing '''housing is a human right'''] under international law and to build a strong movement of organizations and concerned residents to advance and safeguard the right to housing in our communities. A key component of our work is addressing the increasing commodification of housing and how this imperils the health and stability of our residents and communities, especially diverse and marginalized populations. We seek to advance local policy changes and community-led initiatives (such as co-ops) that meaningfully expand access to safe, stable, affordable, and adequate housing.		The '''Housing Rights Working Group''' supports the work of the [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Housing_Justice_Coalition_Table Pittsburgh Housing Justice Table]. We aim to raise awareness that [https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-housing/human-right-adequate-housing '''housing is a human right'''] under international law and to build a strong movement of organizations and concerned residents to advance and safeguard the right to housing in our communities. A key component of our work is addressing the increasing commodification of housing and how this imperils the health and stability of our residents and communities, especially diverse and marginalized populations. We seek to advance local policy changes and community-led initiatives (such as co-ops) that meaningfully expand access to safe, stable, affordable, and adequate housing.

−	Our [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/d/de/Human_Rights_Housing_Strategy_and_Action_Plan_Discussion_Draft_April_2023.pdf '''Pittsburgh Human Rights-based Housing Strategy and Action Plan'''] emerged from months of discussions and input sessions with local housing advocates and residents impacted by the commodification of housing. This ~~guiding~~ document will help ~~move these~~ ideas into formal commitments for action by policy leaders in the city and county. Part of this involves broadening public awareness and mobilizing community group allies to understand housing as a human right and a ''social good'' and to build commitment and political will for the big changes needed to realize housing rights for everyone.	+	Our [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/d/de/Human_Rights_Housing_Strategy_and_Action_Plan_Discussion_Draft_April_2023.pdf '''Pittsburgh Human Rights-based Housing Strategy and Action Plan'''] emerged from months of discussions and input sessions with local housing advocates and residents impacted by the commodification of housing. This document will help to guide us in transforming ideas into formal commitments for action by policy leaders in the city and county. Part of this involves broadening public awareness and mobilizing community group allies to understand housing as a human right and a ''social good'' and to build commitment and political will for the big changes needed to realize housing rights for everyone.

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 == About ==
 The '''Housing Rights Working Group''' supports the work of the [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Housing_Justice_Coalition_Table Pittsburgh Housing Justice Table]. We aim to raise awareness that [https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-housing/human-right-adequate-housing '''housing is a human right'''] under international law and to build a strong movement of organizations and concerned residents to advance and safeguard the right to housing in our communities. A key component of our work is addressing the increasing commodification of housing and how this imperils the health and stability of our residents and communities, especially diverse and marginalized populations. We seek to advance local policy changes and community-led initiatives (such as co-ops) that meaningfully expand access to safe, stable, affordable, and adequate housing.
 '''Recommended background reading:'''
-*Please review our [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/d/de/Human_Rights_Housing_Strategy_and_Action_Plan_Discussion_Draft_April_2023.pdf Pittsburgh Human Rights-based Housing Strategy and Action Plan]. This working document emerged from months of discussions and input sessions with local housing advocates and residents impacted by the commodification of housing.  will help move these ideas into formal commitments for action by policy leaders in the city and county. Part of this involves broadening public awareness and mobilizing community group allies to understand housing as a human right and a ''social good'' and to build commitment and political will for the big changes needed to realize housing rights for everyone.
 *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).

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	== About ==		== About ==
−	The '''Housing Rights Working Group''' supports the work of the [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Housing_Justice_Coalition_Table Pittsburgh Housing Justice Table]. We aim to raise awareness that [https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-housing/human-right-adequate-housing housing is a human right] under international law and to build a strong movement of organizations and concerned residents to advance and safeguard the right to housing in our communities. A key component of our work is addressing the increasing commodification of housing and how this imperils the health and stability of our residents and communities, especially diverse and marginalized populations. We seek to advance local policy changes and community-led initiatives (such as co-ops) that meaningfully expand access to safe, stable, affordable, and adequate housing.	+	The '''Housing Rights Working Group''' supports the work of the [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Housing_Justice_Coalition_Table Pittsburgh Housing Justice Table]. We aim to raise awareness that [https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-housing/human-right-adequate-housing '''housing is a human right'''] under international law and to build a strong movement of organizations and concerned residents to advance and safeguard the right to housing in our communities. A key component of our work is addressing the increasing commodification of housing and how this imperils the health and stability of our residents and communities, especially diverse and marginalized populations. We seek to advance local policy changes and community-led initiatives (such as co-ops) that meaningfully expand access to safe, stable, affordable, and adequate housing.