Your Efforts are Working. The Pressure is Building! Keep Emailing HUD!
Quad Cities Interfaith
It has been only 1 week since 150 supporters showed up to the Town Hall for Housing Justice, and we have already received word from Steven Eggleston and Kimberly Dannae, the Field Office Directors at HUD for Iowa and Illinois! The pressure on HUD to meet with us in the Quad Cities is building! Mr. Eggleston reports that they have received our "multiple email messages"--at least 58 emails to be exact! He promises to get back to the community in "a reasonable amount of time." This is major headway, but whenever means never until HUD sets a date and time for a meeting.
Keep emailing. We need every Quad Citian who cares about housing justice to continue building the pressure! Please send the link to your neighbors, friends, and family. Click this link to ENSURE HUD hears our message.
As we shared at the Town Hall, the QC faces a housing shortage--we need at least 6,645 units ensure safe, decent, and affordable housing for every neighbor. Testimonies from directly impacted people powerfully demonstrate how municipal divestment from housing has catastrophic consequences for us and our neighbors. As LaShanna Dixon said: "For my cousin Branden, the cost of renting in the Quad Cities was his life. I am here today because I don't think renting should be a death sentence." We cannot let another collapse like the one at 324 Main Street happen ever again. We will continue the struggle together: "Fight, fight, fight! Housing is a Human Right!"
That's why the Quad Cities community is calling HUD to come to town. We need HUD to audit local municipal compliance with HUD standards for inspections and ensure proper investment in safe, decent, and affordable housing. If you have not emailed already, please email HUD to demand a meeting. Click this link to ENSURE HUD hears our message.
You can also take Action for Housing Justice by:
1. Sharing the email link with friends, family, and neighbors to get HUD to the QC!
2. Organizing a tenant alliance at your apartment or volunteering with the Quad Cities Tenant Alliance. Contact [email protected] or visit qcinterfaith.org to learn more
3. Voting in your local election on November 7th. Find your polling place HERE
4. Attending your City Council meetings to push our local leaders to put housing justice on the agenda. Meetings are every Wednesday at 5:30 PM at Davenport City Hall.
PACG Webmaster
Keep emailing. We need every Quad Citian who cares about housing justice to continue building the pressure! Please send the link to your neighbors, friends, and family. Click this link to ENSURE HUD hears our message.
As we shared at the Town Hall, the QC faces a housing shortage--we need at least 6,645 units ensure safe, decent, and affordable housing for every neighbor. Testimonies from directly impacted people powerfully demonstrate how municipal divestment from housing has catastrophic consequences for us and our neighbors. As LaShanna Dixon said: "For my cousin Branden, the cost of renting in the Quad Cities was his life. I am here today because I don't think renting should be a death sentence." We cannot let another collapse like the one at 324 Main Street happen ever again. We will continue the struggle together: "Fight, fight, fight! Housing is a Human Right!"
That's why the Quad Cities community is calling HUD to come to town. We need HUD to audit local municipal compliance with HUD standards for inspections and ensure proper investment in safe, decent, and affordable housing. If you have not emailed already, please email HUD to demand a meeting. Click this link to ENSURE HUD hears our message.
You can also take Action for Housing Justice by:
1. Sharing the email link with friends, family, and neighbors to get HUD to the QC!
2. Organizing a tenant alliance at your apartment or volunteering with the Quad Cities Tenant Alliance. Contact [email protected] or visit qcinterfaith.org to learn more
3. Voting in your local election on November 7th. Find your polling place HERE
4. Attending your City Council meetings to push our local leaders to put housing justice on the agenda. Meetings are every Wednesday at 5:30 PM at Davenport City Hall.
PACG Webmaster
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