Baltimore Combines New and Old School to Advocate for Housing
“United Workers helped bring the affordable housing trust fund into existence. It was part of a coalition of grassroots groups who, in the summer of 2016, started organizing to get a question on the ballot to create an affordable housing trust fund that would support a range of housing initiatives, from the creation and preservation of low-income housing to support for community land trusts and housing services for low-income renters. They knocked on doors, talked with residents about the city’s housing needs, and collected 18,000 signatures — nearly twice the 10,000 needed. That November, 83 percent of voters elected to approve the measure.”