Housing Justice Now
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We are Winston-Salem Housing Justice Now. We believe housing is a human right. Join us in the fight against evictions, slumlords, and gentrification!
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August 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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On Monday, City Council shot down a rezoning request from Black business owners who wanted to have events in a building on Chatham Rd. A group of angry nearby white homeowners who used racist dog whistles about boisterous clubs and their (white) daughters being at risk.
August 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
On Monday, City Council shot down a rezoning request from Black business owners who wanted to have events in a building on Chatham Rd. A group of angry nearby white homeowners who used racist dog whistles about boisterous clubs and their (white) daughters being at risk.
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They unionized. They negotiated. They won. Independence Towers tenants in KC set an example for tenant power.
🔗 bit.ly/46GEIAB
#TenantUnion #UnionStrong #CollectivePower
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#TenantUnion #UnionStrong #CollectivePower
August 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
They unionized. They negotiated. They won. Independence Towers tenants in KC set an example for tenant power.
🔗 bit.ly/46GEIAB
#TenantUnion #UnionStrong #CollectivePower
🔗 bit.ly/46GEIAB
#TenantUnion #UnionStrong #CollectivePower
The proposed location of a new amphitheater next to Crystal Towers will increase the risk of violence against our most marginalized residents. Look what's happening already. Imagine how quick police will crack heads of whoever they feel doesn't belong on the public land they wish to steal from us 😡
August 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The proposed location of a new amphitheater next to Crystal Towers will increase the risk of violence against our most marginalized residents. Look what's happening already. Imagine how quick police will crack heads of whoever they feel doesn't belong on the public land they wish to steal from us 😡
Yesterday, we closed on a renovation loan that will help us make the Spring Street Co-op HIGH-QUALITY and TRULY AFFORDABLE housing for residents who will own this building with no landlords!
Here (left to right), managing member Dan, treasurer Phil, and board member Dee celebrate the closing 🥳
Here (left to right), managing member Dan, treasurer Phil, and board member Dee celebrate the closing 🥳
August 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Yesterday, we closed on a renovation loan that will help us make the Spring Street Co-op HIGH-QUALITY and TRULY AFFORDABLE housing for residents who will own this building with no landlords!
Here (left to right), managing member Dan, treasurer Phil, and board member Dee celebrate the closing 🥳
Here (left to right), managing member Dan, treasurer Phil, and board member Dee celebrate the closing 🥳
Don Flow and his cronies want to pay $1 a month for 8 publicly-owned parcels of land downtown. They tell us they'll build an amphitheater at no cost to the public. But parking, traffic, safety, and noise burdens will be borne by residents while the owners of the proposed venue rake in profits.
August 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Don Flow and his cronies want to pay $1 a month for 8 publicly-owned parcels of land downtown. They tell us they'll build an amphitheater at no cost to the public. But parking, traffic, safety, and noise burdens will be borne by residents while the owners of the proposed venue rake in profits.
Housing Justice Now opposes sweetheart deal handing city-owned property to Don Flow and associates
See our press release for more details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
See our press release for more details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
August 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Housing Justice Now opposes sweetheart deal handing city-owned property to Don Flow and associates
See our press release for more details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
See our press release for more details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Lately... ✨️
- Won free bus service during extreme heat and cold
- Forced the head of Winston-Salem's Housing Authority to resign
- Won major repairs and access to community spaces at Healy and Crystal Towers
- Won free bus service during extreme heat and cold
- Forced the head of Winston-Salem's Housing Authority to resign
- Won major repairs and access to community spaces at Healy and Crystal Towers
August 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Lately... ✨️
- Won free bus service during extreme heat and cold
- Forced the head of Winston-Salem's Housing Authority to resign
- Won major repairs and access to community spaces at Healy and Crystal Towers
- Won free bus service during extreme heat and cold
- Forced the head of Winston-Salem's Housing Authority to resign
- Won major repairs and access to community spaces at Healy and Crystal Towers
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Communities all across the country are taking action against Avelo and we need you to join us! By fighting Avelo, we’re showing we can take down those who look to profit off harming our people. We’re showing what’s possible when we organize together.
August 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Communities all across the country are taking action against Avelo and we need you to join us! By fighting Avelo, we’re showing we can take down those who look to profit off harming our people. We’re showing what’s possible when we organize together.
Victory! A month-long campaign by Housing Justuce Now has won free bus service in extreme temps! The WSTA began offering it on July 25th, and under pressure from tenants across the city, City Council made it a permanent policy at their August 4th meeting. Organizing gets the goods, y'all. Join HJN!
August 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Victory! A month-long campaign by Housing Justuce Now has won free bus service in extreme temps! The WSTA began offering it on July 25th, and under pressure from tenants across the city, City Council made it a permanent policy at their August 4th meeting. Organizing gets the goods, y'all. Join HJN!
It's been brutally hot this past week in Winston-Salem. So, with some relief, from July 26 - July 30, we enjoyed the free bus rides that we've been demanding since the beginning of summer. WSTA reinstated fares yesterday as temperatures fell slightly, but we can't stop fighting for our community 🌹
August 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
It's been brutally hot this past week in Winston-Salem. So, with some relief, from July 26 - July 30, we enjoyed the free bus rides that we've been demanding since the beginning of summer. WSTA reinstated fares yesterday as temperatures fell slightly, but we can't stop fighting for our community 🌹
We've got over 1,000 petitions demanding free buses during extreme heat 😤
We're winning! The city started making buses free Saturday. But we want to make it a permanent policy ✅️
We've got a form here: forms.gle/QeqXrAs7QqXB.... Use it to find your city rep, get a script, and report your contacts 📈
We're winning! The city started making buses free Saturday. But we want to make it a permanent policy ✅️
We've got a form here: forms.gle/QeqXrAs7QqXB.... Use it to find your city rep, get a script, and report your contacts 📈
Call and Email City Council By Monday!
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July 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
We've got over 1,000 petitions demanding free buses during extreme heat 😤
We're winning! The city started making buses free Saturday. But we want to make it a permanent policy ✅️
We've got a form here: forms.gle/QeqXrAs7QqXB.... Use it to find your city rep, get a script, and report your contacts 📈
We're winning! The city started making buses free Saturday. But we want to make it a permanent policy ✅️
We've got a form here: forms.gle/QeqXrAs7QqXB.... Use it to find your city rep, get a script, and report your contacts 📈
Winston-Salem, come get these free bus rides again today (until 7 p.m.)!
Community organizing works!
🚏🚌 ✊️
Community organizing works!
🚏🚌 ✊️
July 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Winston-Salem, come get these free bus rides again today (until 7 p.m.)!
Community organizing works!
🚏🚌 ✊️
Community organizing works!
🚏🚌 ✊️
Free buses but nowhere to go... Where are the cooling stations on Sundays!? 🤷🏿♀️🤷🏾♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏻♀️
July 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Free buses but nowhere to go... Where are the cooling stations on Sundays!? 🤷🏿♀️🤷🏾♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏻♀️
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Want to stop displacement?
Organize.
Fund housing trusts.
Back tenant leadership.
Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood just showed us how.
🎧 bit.ly/4lTzENq
#HousingJustice #TenantPower #BostonHousing #CityLifeVidaUrbana
Organize.
Fund housing trusts.
Back tenant leadership.
Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood just showed us how.
🎧 bit.ly/4lTzENq
#HousingJustice #TenantPower #BostonHousing #CityLifeVidaUrbana
After a Six-Year Struggle, Tenants in Boston’s Mattapan Neighborhood Win Permanent Affordability
When a new owner imposed sharp rent hikes in 2018, tenants organized and fought back. Now, more than 300 housing units will be affordable for the foreseeable future. Here’s how the tenants made it hap
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July 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Want to stop displacement?
Organize.
Fund housing trusts.
Back tenant leadership.
Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood just showed us how.
🎧 bit.ly/4lTzENq
#HousingJustice #TenantPower #BostonHousing #CityLifeVidaUrbana
Organize.
Fund housing trusts.
Back tenant leadership.
Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood just showed us how.
🎧 bit.ly/4lTzENq
#HousingJustice #TenantPower #BostonHousing #CityLifeVidaUrbana
🚌 RIDE THAT THANG, WINSTON-SALEM 🚌
WSTA buses are free today during the heat advisory thanks to the work of community organizers who fought for it!
WSTA buses are free today during the heat advisory thanks to the work of community organizers who fought for it!
July 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🚌 RIDE THAT THANG, WINSTON-SALEM 🚌
WSTA buses are free today during the heat advisory thanks to the work of community organizers who fought for it!
WSTA buses are free today during the heat advisory thanks to the work of community organizers who fought for it!
WE DID THIS 💪 Though collective action, we have forced the city to make buses free during heat emergencies!
July 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
WE DID THIS 💪 Though collective action, we have forced the city to make buses free during heat emergencies!
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Dennis Threatt is a public housing resident and one of the most dedicated organizers building the NC Tenants Union. He's helped win substantial improvements for his fellow residents, but now he needs our help: he has a major procedure not being covered by Medicare/Medicaid: gofund.me/731300e6.
Donate to Restore Dennis's Quality of Life: Dental Procedure Fund, organized by Matthew Shields
Dennis Threatt is a dedicated organizer with Housing Justice N… Matthew Shields needs your support for Restore Dennis's Quality of Life: Dental Procedure Fund
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July 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Dennis Threatt is a public housing resident and one of the most dedicated organizers building the NC Tenants Union. He's helped win substantial improvements for his fellow residents, but now he needs our help: he has a major procedure not being covered by Medicare/Medicaid: gofund.me/731300e6.
✨️ Your assistance needed! ✨️
gofund.me/731300e6
Dennis is a dedicated HJN organizer. He has worked to improve conditions at Healy Towers. Residents have won repairs, common space improvements, drug treatment resources, and successfully stopped a wrongful eviction.
Any amount is appreciated!
gofund.me/731300e6
Dennis is a dedicated HJN organizer. He has worked to improve conditions at Healy Towers. Residents have won repairs, common space improvements, drug treatment resources, and successfully stopped a wrongful eviction.
Any amount is appreciated!
Donate to Restore Dennis's Quality of Life: Dental Procedure Fund, organized by Matthew Shields
Dennis Threatt is a dedicated organizer with Housing Justice N… Matthew Shields needs your support for Restore Dennis's Quality of Life: Dental Procedure Fund
gofund.me
July 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
✨️ Your assistance needed! ✨️
gofund.me/731300e6
Dennis is a dedicated HJN organizer. He has worked to improve conditions at Healy Towers. Residents have won repairs, common space improvements, drug treatment resources, and successfully stopped a wrongful eviction.
Any amount is appreciated!
gofund.me/731300e6
Dennis is a dedicated HJN organizer. He has worked to improve conditions at Healy Towers. Residents have won repairs, common space improvements, drug treatment resources, and successfully stopped a wrongful eviction.
Any amount is appreciated!
LET'S GET THIS HOUSING JUSTICE. Did you miss our meeting? Want to still get involved? Visit bit.ly/JOINHJN to sign up!
July 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
LET'S GET THIS HOUSING JUSTICE. Did you miss our meeting? Want to still get involved? Visit bit.ly/JOINHJN to sign up!
Curious what our general meetings are like? We gather in a welcoming space with childcare and refreshments, share the housing struggles we face, discuss the work happening, find ways to get plugged in, and make plans to win! RSVP for our next general meeting this Saturday, July 19th, at 2:00 p.m.! ⬇️
July 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Curious what our general meetings are like? We gather in a welcoming space with childcare and refreshments, share the housing struggles we face, discuss the work happening, find ways to get plugged in, and make plans to win! RSVP for our next general meeting this Saturday, July 19th, at 2:00 p.m.! ⬇️
We are excited to keep building this thing! 🏘⚖️
July 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We are excited to keep building this thing! 🏘⚖️
Chump change. WSTA collected an estimated $943,909 in fares over the past year. Will the city continue to jeopardize public health with something they could easily make free?
July 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Chump change. WSTA collected an estimated $943,909 in fares over the past year. Will the city continue to jeopardize public health with something they could easily make free?
Winston-Salem makes life miserable for those who need public transportation: reinstituting fares suspended at the start of the pandemic, cutting bus lines, and criminalizing people trying to survive at the bus station. Transit justice is housing justice, and we won't stop until our city does right.
July 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Winston-Salem makes life miserable for those who need public transportation: reinstituting fares suspended at the start of the pandemic, cutting bus lines, and criminalizing people trying to survive at the bus station. Transit justice is housing justice, and we won't stop until our city does right.
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Tenants with Section 8 vouchers are being priced out, pushed out, and ignored.
HUD isn’t enforcing the rules, and it’s only getting worse under Trump. But organizers are fighting back.
👉 buff.ly/PA4p8mH
#HousingCrisis #TenantOrganizing
HUD isn’t enforcing the rules, and it’s only getting worse under Trump. But organizers are fighting back.
👉 buff.ly/PA4p8mH
#HousingCrisis #TenantOrganizing
Fact Check: New Housing Doesn't Lead to Overcrowded Schools
Opponents of new housing often say schools can’t absorb all the students it will bring. But the data tells a different story.
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July 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Tenants with Section 8 vouchers are being priced out, pushed out, and ignored.
HUD isn’t enforcing the rules, and it’s only getting worse under Trump. But organizers are fighting back.
👉 buff.ly/PA4p8mH
#HousingCrisis #TenantOrganizing
HUD isn’t enforcing the rules, and it’s only getting worse under Trump. But organizers are fighting back.
👉 buff.ly/PA4p8mH
#HousingCrisis #TenantOrganizing