Solidarity is the Solution
The same public subsidies that fund Memphis’s slumlords now bankroll Elon Musk’s pollution, revealing a single, profitable system that organizers are challenging by uniting the struggles for housing and environmental...
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Tenant Power and Protections on the Frontlines of Climate Crisis
In California, disaster-triggered renter protections are a crucial victory that contributes to a just recovery for working-class people facing the climate crisis. Just north of the San Francisco Bay, dense...
Frontline Communities Lead the Way on Housing and Climate Justice Panel
In this panel, housing organizers have identified our most vital source of resilience as climate disasters intensify: the trust between neighbors, which they are forging into a powerful force for...
Razing Liberty Square with Valencia Gunder
This interview was conducted in Fall 2025 with Valencia Gunder of The Smile Trust, about Razing Liberty Square, a documentary about the Black community of Liberty City and how they’re...
Putting Housing on the High Road
This is a republish of part of a series of CCI substack posts and a policy brief exploring why the United States needs a Green Industrial Policy for Housing. The United States is...
Using Participatory-Action Research to Explore New Campaign Strategies in Red-Trifecta Florida
In the face of a hostile legislature and stalled policies, Miami tenants have stopped asking politicians for help and started building their own power—by turning corporate landlords’ financial records into...
The Climate Movement Must Be A Movement Against Fascism
The era of “holding our lane” is over: we must now choose between building a single-issue movement or preserving the democracy necessary for any movement to survive. In America...
Lessons From Helene: An Organized Community is a Safe Community
When floodwaters consumed the only roads into their Appalachian town, the community’s survival hinged on the deep trust and organizing muscle built by a local group over years, proving that...
Kyle O’Bryan
Kyle is a 24 year old Western North Carolina local. He got involved with community organizing in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. He is most interested in mutual aid and...
Devin T. Murphy
Devin T. Murphy serves on the Pinole City Council and is the former Mayor of the City of Pinole—its first African American, first openly gay, and youngest mayor in its...
Mary Black
Mary Black is a climate storyteller, artist, organizer, and Afrofuturist from Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the Co-Manager of the Black Hive @ M4BL. From 2022-2024 she served as the...
Down Home North Carolina
Down Home North Carolina is building power with poor and working-class people in North Carolina’s small towns and rural communities.
Ruthy Gourevitch
Ruthy Gourevitch (she/her) is the Housing Policy Director at Climate and Community Institute and leads the policy and research team supporting the Tenant Union Federation.
Tara Raghuveer
Tara Raghuveer (she/her) is the founding director of KC Tenants and the national Tenant Union Federation.
Santra Denis
A South Florida native, Santra Denis is the Executive Director of the Miami Workers Center, a power-building, member-led organization, organizing working-class care workers, tenants, women, and families for the rights,...
Aru Shiney-Ajay
Aru Shiney-Ajay is the Executive Director of Sunrise Movement.
The North Bay Organizing Project
The North Bay Organizing Project (NBOP) is a base-building organization that unites people to build leadership and grassroots power for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice in Sonoma County. For...
Jeremiah Smith
Jeremiah (he/him/any) is the Director of Organizing at the Freedom Project Network and a volunteer organizer and Board member of the Memphis Tenants Union. As an educator, youth organizer, and...
Tony Samara
Tony Samara (he/him) is Associate Director of Political Strategy at the Right to the City Alliance.
Yasin Frank Southall
Yasin Frank Southall, Organizing & Community Engagement Manager with Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative [JPNSI].