Imagining and Demanding Housing Justice in the Time of Coronavirus
Imagining and Demanding Housing Justice in the Time of Coronavirus
IRRPP and the Social Justice Initiative held a conversation with grassroots organizers and housing policy advocates about the key challenges and opportunities to advance housing justice in the current moment in Chicago. The panel discussed the ways in which the Coronavirus pandemic is impacting affordable housing, rent reform, and health and physical safety inside the home as well as what we can do to transform housing policies to better serve the needs of working families and all Chicago and Illinois residents as we prepare for the near and long term. Panelists were Gianna Baker (Co-Executive Director at the Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance), Adam Ballard (Housing and Transportation Policy Analyst at Access Living), Leone Jose Biccieri (Founding Executive Director at Working Family Solidarity), Diane Limas (Board President and Leader at Communities United), Jawanza Malone (Executive Director at the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization), Kate Walz (Vice President of Advocacy and Director of Housing Justice at the Shriver Center of Poverty Law), and David Young (Director of Capacity Building at Housing Action Illinois).