By: Travis Wayne ARLINGTON, MA – On Saturday, August 2, 2025, the Hamilton Tenants Association made a bold move: rallying directly and publicly against their landlord right outside their home. It wasn’t their first option. The tenants at 898 Massachusetts Avenue had made phone call after phone call for everything under the sun, from repairs […] The post Hamilton Tenants Association Faces Terrible Landlord With Rally in Arlington appeared first on Working Mass.| Working Mass
The state of housing justice and public health is nothing short of a political polycrisis. A term defined as a “cluster of distinct crises that interact in ways that they and/or their effects tend to reinforce each other.” Michael D. Durham of Funders Together for Housing Justice used this term to describe the intersection of… The post Criminalizing Homelessness Will Make Everyone Less Safe appeared first on Neighborhood Funders Group.| Neighborhood Funders Group
By Pilar Steward, PBI Intern Right to Counsel (RTC) programs, which jurisdictions across the United States have enacted, are both crucial to helping low-income tenants remain in their homes and provide a well-established return on investment to the governments that fund them. Yet despite their proven effectiveness, RTC programs remain severely underfunded, forcing many to […] The post Sustaining Tenants’ Right to Counsel appeared first on Pro Bono Institute.| Pro Bono Institute
We pen this editorial amidst growing authoritarianism and violence around the world, from the Israeli state’s continued genocide in Gaza to the unfurling fist of the Trump administration quashing immigration raid protests in Los Angeles. It seems we are experiencing what Nancy Fraser (2019)—paraphrasing Antonio Gramsci—refers to as an era in which “the old is… Read MoreHousing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence »| Radical Housing Journal
The Democratizing Development Program (DDP) organizes funders to ensure all people live in a safe, affordable home. In the fall, DDP hosted a webinar that invited funders to examine how the economy’s housing system prevents people from living in dignified homes and the solutions that grassroots, power building organizations are creating. This article highlights three… The post Webinar Recap – Community Ownership Models to Support Housing and Land Justice appeared first on Neighborhood F...| Neighborhood Funders Group
Developed by Chimene Okere and Tara Mohtadi, designed by Karla Flemming Within a solidarity economy framework, community ownership has emerged as a strategy for communities to steward land, resources, and capital, shifting power and wealth from banks and corporations, and redistributing it to those who have been most impacted by cycles of extraction and… The post Building Collectively: 4 Takeaways from Movement-Led Community Ownership Models appeared first on Neighborhood Funders Group.| Neighborhood Funders Group
