Housing in Times of Crisis

“As the economic fallout from COVID-19 sends the United States’s unemployment levels skyrocketing and a disastrous eviction crisis unfolds for low-income renters, it’s valuable to understand the radical actions that previous generations of housing activists took to combat injustice and how they might play an important role in the affordable housing fight in the years to come.” Please check out this article by Shelterforce that highlights housing movements across the nation, including the Chicago Anti Eviction Campaign, that have helped change housing policy in response to times of crisis.