Housing
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Housing
Housing is a core need that determines how people are able to show up in the world, how autonomously we can move, live, and exist, what sort of support we’re able to give others, and the amount of agency we can express or impose over space. We recognize housing as…
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Instead of housing our neighbors, the City of Lansing uses vacant homes for SWAT training
On March 12 in Lansing, Michigan, local police departments turned two vacant houses on South Hayford Avenue into a SWAT training playground. They did this with no advanced notice to residents and instead went lazily knocking on a few surrounding doors on the day of the training. Neighbors were subjected…
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Community BBQs at Empty Lot, Landlord Calls Cops
Since the eviction at Growing Hope Marketplace Hall on Wednesday August 23, 2023, Shelter Now has grown from an impromptu coalition of community members and organizations to a force to be reckoned with. Over the past two months, the group has organized a Week of Action targeting Ypsilanti government entities,…
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We Make the Community by Defending It
Neighborhood resists eviction of homeless people by local nonprofit board and business owners Growing Hope, Growing Fences Wednesday, August 23, 2023 the board of the local nonprofit Growing Hope called the cops and evicted all people staying underneath their downtown Marketplace Hall — without notice — and attempted to install…
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Home is Where the Struggle is
The Michigan General Defense Committee has prioritized struggles around housing and homelessness. Each of our chapters in Washtenaw County, Lansing, and Detroit have ongoing participation in organizing campaigns to address the lack of affordable housing, to fight back against evictions and horrible conditions, as well as running and assisting with survival…
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