2025 Housing Justice Resources & Follow Ups

Thank you to everyone who attended and helped to organize the 2025 Housing Justice Summit! This page will be updated to highlight key lessons, opportunities, resources and potential next steps that emerged from the Summit. Notice something is missing? Please feel welcome to send us an email at hrca@theglobalswitchboard.org.

Keynote: Tracy Rosenthal

Tracy Rosenthal is a co-founder of LA Tenants Union and co-author of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.

• View the recording of Tracy's keynote address here.

Organizing for Tenants Rights

Pittsburgh groups doing this work

• Pittsburgh Union of Regional Renters
• Pittsburgh Tenants Organizing Committee
• OnePA
• Pittsburgh Housing Justice Table, Tenants Bill of Rights & Anti-retaliation Campaigns
• Pitt Renters First (Students)

Social Housing

Pittsburgh groups doing this work

• Note: There are many groups working to support more and better social housing in the Pittsburgh region. Below are groups that were featured as part of the conversation on social housing at the 2025 Housing Justice Summit.
• Steel City Cooperative Housing Association
• Pittsburgh Housing Justice Table, Social Housing Campaign

Resources

• Housing for the People: How Local Governments are Building Social Housing Solutions for Public Good, Resource by Policy Link, PowerSwitch Action, and Local Progress Impact Lab

Governance & Policy

Movement Building