We believe that an affordable secure home should be guaranteed to everyone, not allocated according to what the market will bear. Realizing that future will require reimagining housing as a public good rather than a vehicle for profit. It means building a system in which a substantial share of housing is permanently removed from the private market and is, instead, stewarded for long term affordability, climate resilience, and collective well being.

Our vision is of a city where tenants have meaningful power over the conditions of their housing and the future of their communities. Where people have the right to remain in their homes without fear of displacement, and where housing is affordable, healthy, and built to support dignity over a lifetime. 

A housing system organized around stability, affordability, and collective well-being will not emerge on its own. As housing scholar Catherine Bauer observed, it can be achieved only when there is an active and sustained demand strong enough to counterbalance the political influence of real estate interests. Building this future therefore depends on tenants organizing at scale, using research and lived experience to demonstrate the limits of market provision, articulating viable non-market alternatives, and winning the policy changes needed to expand permanently decommodified housing.