Community Partners
Housing is a Human Right has a growing number of community partners. Through organizing, advocacy and equitable community development these organizations labor tirelessly to preserve and improve the conditions of our neighborhoods.
Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE) is a Brooklyn-based, multi-racial organization made up of almost exclusively women of color. We are organizing low-income families to build power to change the system so that all people’s work is valued and all of us have the right and economic means to decide and live out our own destinies. We use direct action, leadership development, community organizing and political education to win the changes our members seek. Our guiding principle is that those directly affected by the policies we are seeking to change should lead the organization. www.FUREE.org
Pratt Area Community Council (PACC) embraces a vision in which people strive together to build an equitable, diverse, engaged, and flourishing community in central Brooklyn. In our work as a community development corporation, PACC pursues five major goals: 1) preserve and develop safe and affordable housing, a basic human right; 2) support a vibrant local commerce through which small businesses serve the market needs of community residents: 3) third, to sustain and develop an economic, racial, and cultural diversity that can enrich the lives of all 4) fourth, to promote knowledge, initiative, and concerted action that can advance individual and common interests; 5) to foster an ethic that all members of the community bear personal responsibility to contribute to the greater good. www.prattarea.org
Picture the Homeless is an organization founded on the principle that in order to end homelessness, people who are homeless must become an organized, effective voice for systemic change. We have a track record of developing leadership among homeless people to impact policies and systems that affect their lives and our efforts have created space for homeless people, and their agenda, within the broader social justice movement. www.picturethehomeless.org
The National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) promotes a human rights vision for the United States that ensures dignity and access to the basic resources needed for human development and civic participation. Towards this end, NESRI works with organizers, policy advocates and legal organizations to incorporate a human rights perspective into their work and build human rights advocacy models tailored for the United States. NESRI takes a partnership approach to building a human rights culture in the United States, and prioritizes partnerships at the community level. www.nesri.org
http://housingisahumanright.org/feed/rss/
One Comment
Trackbacks / Pingbacks
[...] Housing is a Human Right By Syreeta Leave a Comment Categories: Uncategorized via housingisahumanright.org [...]