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.
• "Rights are what we make and what we take!"
• "The capitalist system isn't designed to provide the best quality housing to the most tenants. It's designed to maximize landlords' profits by extracting the most rent."

Organizing for Tenants Rights

Pittsburgh groups doing this work

• Pittsburgh Union of Regional Renters (Contact pghurr@gmail.com)
• Pittsburgh Tenants Organizing Committee (Contact pittsburghtenants@gmail.com)
• OnePA (Contact matt@onepa.org)
• Pittsburgh Housing Justice Table, Tenants Bill of Rights & Anti-retaliation Campaigns (Contact Dave@LUnited.org or info@pittsburghunited.org)
• Pitt Renters First Committee (Students) - complete the interest form or contact Emilia EJM163@pitt.edu

Upcoming events

Social Housing

Pittsburgh groups doing this work

• Steel City Cooperative Housing Association (Contact Randall at randalltaylor2016@gmail.com)
• Pittsburgh Housing Justice Table, Social Housing Campaign (Contact Dave@LUnited.org or info@pittsburghunited.org)

Upcoming Events

• 10th Anniversary of Penn Plaza mass evictions. To get involved in organizing efforts to recognize this tragedy and ensure it never happens again, contact andalltaylor2016@gmail.com or madeline@theglobalswitchboard.org

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

Ways to Get Involved

• Pittsburghers for Public Transit, ACT NOW to stop catastrophic public transit cuts and become a member

Movement Building

• More information coming soon!

Upcoming events

• Tuesday, April 15th, Know Your Rights for Students in Off-Campus Housing, Pitt Renters First Committee, 6-8pm, William Pitt Union, Nordy's Place (Open to all students)
• Friday, April 25th, Spray Paint Workshop & Panel Discussion: Freedom of Expression and Free Walls: Imagining Spaces for Dialogue and Belonging in Pittsburgh, Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project, 5-6pm -spray paint workshop, 6-8pm - panel discussion with reception catered by El Colibri, Irma Freeman Center for the Imagination, 5006 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224
• Wednesday, April 30th, Film Screening & Conversation: BEYOND THE BRIDGE: A Solution to Homelessness, August Wilson African American Cultural Center, film at 7pm (doors at 6:30pm). RSVP here (tickets are free!)