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May 18, 2010

In America’s cities, community is one of the most valuable resources for low-income people – family, friends, and places of worship provide essential support such as childcare, jobs, transportation, and senior care. Housing that is affordable, safe, and stable is central to ensuring low-income families’ right to that community. But for many, the right to remain in their neighborhoods has been in danger. Over the past few decades, the availability of housing that is truly affordable for low-income people has been diminishing at an alarming rate – a trend that has become painfully obvious with the recent housing and economic crises.

The Right to the City (RTTC) Alliance is a grassroots coalition that emerged in 2007 as a unified response to gentrification, calling for a halt to displacement of low-income people (disproportionately people of color, LGBTQ, and youth of color) from their historic neighborhoods. RTTC stands firmly in the conviction that building and maintaining strong communities requires undoing neo-liberal economic policies. These policies promote, among other tenets, deregulation – reducing government regulation of anything that could diminish profits, and privatization – selling government-owned enterprises and services to private investors.

In this report RTTC is focused on the effects of these policies on public housing and its residents.

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