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Just 13 short years after inviting #BoulderCouncil candidates over to the Masala Co-op for tea and cakes to discuss repealing occupancy limits that discriminate against unrelated people, and 28 years after Cedar Barstow got busted for living in an intentional community in her own home and was sentenced to community service, which she used to help found the Boulder Housing Coalition.

https://www.colorado.gov/governor/news/more-housing-now-colorado-eliminates-unfair-occupancy-limits-under-new-law-signed-governor

#CoLeg #Housing

More Housing Now: Colorado Eliminates Unfair Occupancy Limits Under New Law Signed by Governor Polis | Colorado Governor Jared Polis

DENVER - Today, Governor Polis signed HB24-1007, Prohibit Residential Occupancy Limits, sponsored by Representatives Manny Rutinel and Javier Mabrey, and Senators Tony Exum and Julie Gonzales, eliminating discriminatory occupancy limits in Colorado a…
www.colorado.gov
#housing #bouldercouncil #coleg

The first speaker, Cedar Barstow, has worked on this issue for 27 years. In the 1990s she was caught living overoccupied and sentenced to community service (after having to kick out her housemates).

She used her community service hours to help start the Boulder Housing Coalition, a non-profit #cooperative #housing developer.

https://www.bhccoops.org/


Home - Boulder Housing Coalition

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#housing #cooperative

Jun 12
Rally at R&R
Mon 7:00 PM - Tue 12:00 AM
Eugene, Oregon Events
Support a grieving Black working class Oregon family to keep a safe, reliable home surrounded by community INSTEAD OF allowing a greedy, wealthy, and absentee landlord in California to kick them out.
#housing #rent strike

Undergrads at the University of Oregon are experiencing food and housing insecurity at UO and across the state. We attend public universities, students should not be worried about how they’ll pay for their next meal. A labor union for undergrads will help raise the wages of students working on campus. A labor union will help represent the interests of students attending our public university.

#CampusSurvey #UofO #food #housing #Union #UnionStrong #UnionYes
More than 70% of UO Undergraduates were worried about food access during the 2021-22 school year. (The Office of Assessment and Research, Metric Mondays, 9/19/2022)
34.3% of UO Undergrads were food insecure during the year of 2021-2022, triple the national food insecurity rate. (The Office of Assessment and Research, Metric Mondays, 8/22/2022)
Over 2,000 requests from students were submitted to UO for emergency housing support funds during the 2021-2022 school year. (Around the O, Basic Needs Update, https://around.uoregon.edu/content/uo-launches-new-program-help-students-basic-needs)
For students in Oregon... Over 60% of Indigenous students experience food and/or housing insecurity. Over 50% of Black students experience food and/or housing insecurity. Over 45% of Latinx students experience food insecurity, and over 55% experience housing insecurity. Over 60% of trans students experience food and/or housing insecurity. Over 50% of student-parents experience food and/or housing insecurity (Hunger Free Oregon , #CollegeSurvey Oregon, Full Report, https://oregonhunger.org/hunger-free-campuses/)
#food #housing #union #campussurvey #uofo #unionstrong #unionyes

Hi all, I'm seeing efforts by different disciplines moving out of twitter to reconnect on Mastodon. Lets try to do this for urban/housing twitter!

Please fill out this form if you are a journalist, student, practitioner, or scholar of cities, urban planning, housing, urbanism, etc. https://tinyurl.com/yuxu77kv

And, if you want to see the list, the spreadsheet is here: https://tinyurl.com/5n7fkus7

Please circulate/boost in your networks! #urban #twittermigration #housing #cities #gentrification

Urban/Housing Mastodon

To help with the twitter migration, were making a list of urbanist/housing mastodon. Academics, journalists, practitioners, students.
Google Docs
#housing #twittermigration #urban #cities #gentrification

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