Coalition Building
The CAEC works with organizations from Charlottesville, Cincinnati, Detroit, Minnesota, and Kentucky dealing with issues around education, housing, water, unemployment, and mass incarceration. Most successfully the best collective practices have come from the housing sector. We utilize human rights mechanisms such as the United Nations’ reporting processes for civil society, NGO's and community groups and submitted various collective reports as a region via the U.S. Human Rights Network. Our objective is to engage people nationally and internationally on the issue of housing as a human right. These reports were submitted under International Convention Against Torture (ICAT), International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), International Convention on Eliminating Racial Discrimination (ICERD) and the upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR).Due to our national coalition involvement, our organization will have a greater impact. We are currently building coalitions among community organizations, government officials, public and private entities, financial institutions and higher education institutions. We are teaching our national partners how to create public policy, as well as public/private pilot programs.
Our Partners
Chicago Community Loan Fund (CCLF)
Cook County Land Bank Authority (CCLBA)
National Community Stabilization Trust (NCST)
Road to Righteousness (R2R)
National Stabilization Initiative (NSI)
Blocks Together
Ujamaa Community Land Trust (CLT)
Greater Southwest CDC
B&J Contractors
People for Community Recovery
Black Chicago Development Coalition (BCDC)
University of Chicago-Urban Teacher Eduction Program
Our Company
Think Genius
Genesis Construction and Training
Public Housing Association of Residents Charlottesville
National Public Housing Museum
Brothers Standing Together
The Tool Bank
Institutional Partnerships
The CAEC has also contributed to the knowledge base of institutions of higher education. The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA was inspired by the work of the Campaign and were part of the Inauguration of the Institute in 2016. Our knowledge and experience in racial justice work and movement building helped push thought, conversations, and action forward at the research and institution level. For the past four years our partnership with the Urban Teacher Education Program (UTEP) at the University of Chicago has impacted the development of over 100 teachers across the city of Chicago. Our organization is positioned as community scholars who help in the preparation of teachers serving the children of Chicago by facilitating community tours, facilitating discussions around the history of Chicago’s housing policies, and the impacts of the housing crisis on Chicago communities and families. We also helped UChicago UTEP by facilitating partnerships with other organizations such as Blocks Together and Blacks in Green. The Campaign’s most recent partnership with the University of Virginia contributed to the development of proposal for an Equity Center that would seek to serve the public by using research to redress historical inequities and have a positive impact on the local community through community-university partnerships.