Category 2010s Housing Justice

Detroit Action and BLOC build Black political power through year-round civic engagement.

In Detroit and Milwaukee — two majority-Black cities where political disinvestment and economic inequality had long suppressed civic participation — two organizations were building something different: year-round, membership-based civic engagement programs rooted in community relationships rather than election-cycle mobilization. Founded…

Youth from Free Your Voice block a waste incinerator from being built in Baltimore.

In 2002, homeless and unemployed residents of Baltimore founded United Workers Association (UWA, Norman grantee 2010–2021) as a human rights organization focused on ending poverty. They built a grassroots base of over 3,000 members that won increased wages for homeless…