The Community Forum for Economic Justice understands that safe and accessible housing is a basic human right and that housing that requires more than 30% of a family’s income is not accessible for any family. Housing tainted by lead, mold, or other health hazards, or lacking basic human needs, such as reliable heat and water, is not safe housing. We collaborate with other organizations and individuals to understand the housing needs of our community, advocate for needed policies and practices that could meet those needs, and support projects and organizations that support our neighbors who are unhoused, facing eviction, or experiencing unsafe living conditions.
DOCUMENTS
Why Your House Was So Expensive, by Derek Thompson, The Atlantic. July 25, 2022
Homeowner and Rental Vacancy Rates Declined During COVID-19 Pandemic, by Jonathan Spader, www.census.gov, May 12, 2022
Lessons From Eviction Court, by Fran Quigley, December 2, 2021, www.commondreams.org
Evictions: St. Joseph County, Indiana, 2016 and 2020, by John Hagen, November 2021
Housing is A Human Right, Presentation by Judy Fox, Director of the Economic Justice Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame, at a meeting of the Community Forum for Economic Justice, August 25, 2021
Mayor’s Working Group on Chronic Homelessness, Final Report, August 2017
Neighbors Saving Neighborhoods: Community Forum Paper on Vacant and Abandoned Housing, August 2013