Sharing Your Experiences: A Statewide Housing Conversation Series!
The best and most effective decisions on how to make affordable housing more attainable to those making low incomes come from the people closest to the problem. Too often the people that have directly experienced housing instability and / or homelessness are not part of policy and program decisions that impact their lives. And too often those that are delivering the assistance on the front lines are not consulted when designing policies.
This project will serve low-income individuals, bringing them into the conversations with those making decisions about new or improved policies and programs to make affordable housing more attainable. We will also provide contact information for available assistance and self-sufficiency resources to those that participate based on their specific needs.
100% of the people who access our resources are low to moderate income.
Advocacy Days are events in which people come together from across the state to educate their elected representatives and advocate for increasing housing resources, ending homelessness, and eradicating blight in Pennsylvania. We host Advocacy Days twice a year in Harrisburg and in Washington DC
Home Matters Day takes place annually in the late spring in Harrisburg.
Capitol Hill Day takes place in the early spring in Washington DC in partnership with the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Visit nlihc.org to learn more.
Listen & Act 4 Housing & Health
The Housing Alliance thanks the following organizations that hosted us to facilitate a Community Conversation with people with lived expertise to hear their stories and perspectives on barriers and solutions to the affordable housing crisis.
Act in Faith- West Chester
ACTION Housing Inc.
Allentown Housing Authority
Auberle
Beaver County CoC/HMIS
Bucks County Opportunity Council
Clinton County Housing Authority
Resources for Human Development
Community Youth and Women’s Alliance
Columbia Housing Authority
The Housing Alliance is partnering with the PA Health Access Network and its BeHeard BeHealthy PA initiative. The Housing Alliance’s Listen & Act 4 Housing & Health (LA4HH) civic engagement project will incorporate the voices of people with lived experience and expertise to make substantial positive changes in the rust belt, rural, and inner-ring suburb communities.
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LA4HH has four aims:
1. Engage local community members on strategies to create change in programs, their communities, and the Commonwealth;
2. Assist in the identifying policies and programs to reduce the barriers to quality housing;
3. Champion for policy initiatives at the state and federal levels;
4. Construct tools to help community members to engage elected officials and inform policies.