Week 5

How Right to the City upholds “Right to the City”

July 28, 2018

It’s expected that Right to the City and, by extension, Homes For All, incorporate the principles outlined in CUNY professor David Harvey’s 2008 piece of the same name into their mission as well as their everyday work. Harvey writes about the capacity of city-dwellers to take control over the development of their neighborhoods to create…

Another photo from the #Beltline4All action

Polygons representing the HOLC’s 1937 Baltimore Housing Security (redlining) map placed over the 2018 vacancy heatmap

Rooftop of Right to the City’s office

Themes of Active/Future campaigns being run by HFA member groups based on their city/information collected in HFA member census. Coral is Building-Based Justice, teal is Community Control, yellow is Renters’ Rights, pink is Development Without Displacement, Orange is Discrimination in Housing, green is Just Cause Eviction, blue is Rent Control, tangerine is Right to Counsel, and purple is Tenant Unions. Important to note that approximately 40 groups out of HFA’s 100+ member group network filled out the member census.

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