Housing

Safe, affordable, and dignified housing is necessary for economic stability. The lack of affordable housing for low-income people, inequitable housing practices and policies, and displacement interfere with employment opportunities, disrupt educational access, and create long-term economic, health, public safety, educational and other social costs.

MLRI works with tenants, community groups, legal aid advocates, policymakers, and a broad range of organizations to advance healthy, safe, and affordable housing for all.

MLRI’s housing advocacy focuses on:

strengthening the rights of low-income renters.
preventing displacement of low-income residents especially in gentrifying communities.
furthering fair housing.
ensuring meaningful access to the court system by low income tenants.
advancing preservation and production of truly affordable housing.
preventing homelessness and removing barriers to shelters.

Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it."

Jordan Flaherty, author and journalist