In the March primaries, 71 percent of 33rd Ward voters said they wanted Illinois to lift the ban on rent control to address gentrification and displacement.
This win brought new momentum to the push to keep our neighborhoods affordable and challenge the interests of big developers.
In the March primaries, 71 percent of 33rd Ward voters said they wanted Illinois to lift the ban on rent control to address gentrification and displacement.
This win brought new momentum to the push to keep our neighborhoods affordable and challenge the interests of big developers.
33rd Ward Working Families hosted a panel April 26 with our friends in the Lift the Ban Coalition and the Autonomous Tenants union to discuss how rent control works, how it fits into a vision of quality, affordable housing for all in our community, and how to pressure state and local lawmakers to pass the kind of rent control we want to see in our city.
Getting the community conversation on #rentcontrol. We can #LiftTheBan! @LTBcoalition @AutonomousUnion pic.twitter.com/RwiVxKUe0o
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 26, 2018
Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez: from the time I found out I was pregnant to the time son was 6 months old, had to leave two Albany Park apartments due to rising rents. #LiftTheBan
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 26, 2018
Rossana: There’s a human cost beyond rising rents. One of my students was displaced while family dealt with death of grandmother. One story among so many. #LiftTheBan
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 26, 2018
Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez: Elected officials don’t share experiences their constituents have. Infuriating that so little help is available from officials who side with developer campaign donors. #LiftTheBan
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 26, 2018
Rossana: 33rd Ward Working Families and allies led charge for #rentcontrol in Albany Park, engaged dozens of volunteers, knocked on thousands of doors. “We are defending this ward for all of us.” #LiftTheBan
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 26, 2018
.@jbkm1973, leader in #LiftTheBan coalition: “Rent control is a tried and true method of preserving communities.”
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 26, 2018
.@jbkm1973: Realtor associations have told scary campfire stories about terrors of rent control, but they haven’t come to pass. “This is the worst horror movie, because there are never any monsters.” #LiftTheBan
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 26, 2018
.@jbkm1973: Rent control isn’t the disaster that realtors associations have claimed. They’re only afraid of inability to maximize landlord profits. #LiftTheBan
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 26, 2018
.@jbkm1973: Half of Illinois renters are rent burdened—they spend more than 30% of income on rent. #LiftTheBan #rentcontrol
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 26, 2018
.@jbkm1973: I haven’t seen one @realDonaldTrump tweet about rent burden. It’s been up to local community orgs to keep speaking about this problem. #LiftTheBan
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 26, 2018
Maria Starck, fair housing advocate: Displacement one of the huge consequences of rising rents. Marginalized communities, incl undocumented immigrants, formerly incarcerated hit hardest. #LiftTheBan
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 26, 2018
Maria: Just Cause Eviction, restrictions on how landlords can push tenants out, can complement rent control as “immediate defensive policy.” #LiftTheBan
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 26, 2018
Maria: Housing also affects transportation, employment & educational options, food access. “Housing is a human right” is a slogan that relates it to much of life. #LiftTheBan
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 27, 2018
Maria: Landlords are not singularly causing rising rent crisis. Lenders, brokers, politicians all take a cut. Housing now built on a profit model, not a human rights model. #LiftTheBan
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 27, 2018
Felix w/ @AutonomousUnion: We saw people who were getting evicted if a relative got sick. We knew these stories needed to be centered and that we needed to organize the community. #LiftTheBan
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 27, 2018
Felix with @AutonomousUnion: “When we say ‘Housing is a human right,’ we don’t see that as a given, but something we have to assert.” #LiftTheBan
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 27, 2018
Speakers from @AutonomousUnion: When tenants were being evicted, Ald. Deb Mell didn’t just fail to support the tenants, but she sided with the developer against them. #LiftTheBan
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 27, 2018
.@AutonomousUnion: As Sunnyside Manor tenants were being evicted just blocks from her office, Deb Mell posed for photos handing their landlord a big check for a tax rebate. #NotOurFriend #LiftTheBan
— Working Families 33rd (@33rdWardWorking) April 27, 2018
