New Group to Protect Tenants Rights

Public housing residents and their advocates have posed themselves and are ready to “fight back,” against the mandatory community service and one-strike evictions policies, “which are penalizing tenants according to a newly formed group called PHROLES, made up of members from the National Training and Information Center, the Coalition to Protect Public Housing and Good Old Lower East Side.

“Public housing and Section 8 are under attack,” they declared in a March 3, 2008 press release.

The leaders of the group formed to fight against demolition, displacement, disinvestment, punitive policies and the right to organize in their local communities and together nationally. Also demand greater federal investment and an end to the attack on public housing for low-income families across this country.”

The newly formed national housing justice movement convened their first ever National Public Housing Leadership Summit from February 29 to March 2 in Chicago, in which more than 50 public housing leaders from across the country attended. At the summit they discussed necessary reforms needed to secure the future of public, subsidized, and Section 8 communities.