Behind the List
Donate to Housing Justice
Listings Project is a community offering free access to carefully vetted real estate, job, and services offered listings weekly.
In 2023 we raised $12,417 for housing justice in celebration Listings Project's 20th Anniversary. While our donation drive and celebration is complete, it is never too late to give to these amazing organizations.
Listings Project is built on a vision of accountability to our community. In our view, care is the shared responsibility of the group, rather than the lone task of an individual. Even in the cut throat world of real estate, we offer a choice to opt into a different way of being, where we can lean into community and connection as the basis for how we find our homes and jobs.
The Urban Institute defines housing justice as “ensuring everyone has affordable housing that promotes health, well-being, and upward mobility by confronting historical and ongoing harms and disparities caused by structural racism and other systems of oppression.”
This is important for everyone, whether or not we can afford our rent. Please join us in contributing to a more just and equitable housing system for all.
Photo curtesy of Black Woman Build
Black Women Build
Black Women Build is a home-ownership and wealth-building initiative that trains Black women in trades-related skills by restoring vacant and deteriorated houses in West Baltimore. Their holistic program integrates knowledge, skill, and opportunity. Program homebuyers complete a series of workshops that provide increased financial literacy, practical skills for home care, and leadership strategies to help them build healthy thriving communities.
Donate to Black Women Build
Photo curtesy of Project Row Houses
Project Row Houses
Project Row Houses, located in Houston, is a community platform that enriches lives through art with an emphasis on cultural identity and its impact on the urban landscape. Their work touches the lives of under-resourced neighbors, young single mothers with the ambition of a better life for themselves and their children, small enterprises with the drive to take their businesses to the next level, and artists interested in using their talents to understand and enrich the lives of others.
Photo curtesy of ANHD
Association for Neighborhood Housing Development
Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development is a member based organization of community groups across New York City. They build community power to win affordable housing and thriving equitable neighborhoods for all New Yorkers. They provide comprehensive training, robust capacity-building & apprenticeship programs, and high-impact policy research to support their members in their work to build equity and justice in their neighborhoods and city-wide.
Donate to Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development
Photo curtesy of Eviction Defense Network
Eviction Defense Network
Eviction Defense Network is dedicated to closing the access to justice gap for families facing eviction in Los Angeles County. 4,000 eviction cases are brought to LA courts per month. EDN has lawyers who can only represent 5,000 households per year. Through their online empowerment classes they teach tenants facing eviction to represent themselves in court. The classes cover the complexities of the eviction process, tenants rights, and provide tenant to tenant lead support. The EDN has a 98% success rate in resolving evictions.
Donate to Eviction Defense Network
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We’d love for you to donate to any of these organizations, which you can do by clicking the donate links for each organization.
Of course, there are so many housing justice organizations in addition to these doing important work. And we encourage you to host a similar drive for your community on an upcoming occasion of your own.
Thank you so much for being a part of the Listings Project community, for taking part in supporting housing justice, and for working to dismantle the factors that contribute to housing instability.
Love,
Stephanie and the Listings Project team
Cover photo: Black Women Build
Stephanie is an artist, entrepreneur and Founder / CEO of Listings Project. She creates communities of collective self-care. With over three decades of experience community building, the largest community she has created to date is Listings Project. As a social practice artist, she creates with a community as opposed to an audience. She has exhibited at: MoMA, MASS MoCA, MoMA/P.S. 1, Studio Museum in Harlem, Queens Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Project Row Houses, to name a few. As an educator and leader she has held positions at museums, public art institutions, and schools and universities. Lean more about Stephanie at: stephaniediamond.com