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Tax Alliance for Economic Mobility Provides Feedback to the Senate Finance Committee on How to Improve Tax Reform

In response to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch’s (R-Utah) call for input and feedback from tax stakeholders across the country on how to improve the American tax system through tax reform, The Tax Alliance for Economic Mobility submitted the following letter to the Finance Committee that focuses on reform that outs low and moderate income people first, and fuels upward economic mobility instead of exacerbating an already-growing wealth divide.

The letter hones in on four sets of principles for reform of tax-based aid that can lead to more equitable programs that will expand opportunity throughout the country:

  1. Increasing Financial Security for Working Families;
  2. Making Higher Education Tax Expenditures Work for Everyone;
  3. Using the Tax Code to Encourage Savings and Investment for Retirement
  4. Reduce Subsidies for Mortagage Debt and Larger Homes Owned by High-Income Households

Read the full letter here and sign up for the Tax Alliance newsletter for updates on our work.

April 2005

Market Creek Plaza: Toward Resident Ownership of Neighborhood Change

Overview

Details Market Creek's planning, design, and implementation process, and highlights the importance of resident involvement in this groundbreaking community development project where Market Creek Plaza, is among the nation's first real estate development projects to be designed, built, and ultimately owned by community residents.

November 2024

Homes as Sanctuaries: Audience and Storytelling Insights from YouTube

Overview

Our homes are emotional sanctuaries. They define our identities and sense of belonging and provide a foundation for security and community. For too long, housing justice narratives have underrepresented this storytelling aspect, leaving critical stories untold and engagement opportunities unexplored. Without new storytelling techniques, the narratives that shape public understanding and support for housing justice will continue to overlook the experiences of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities, further entrenching disparities in access to secure, affordable housing.

Through media platforms like YouTube, housing justice advocates have a wealth of opportunities to expand their storytelling practices. As an influential platform driven by personalities and emotional content, YouTube offers opportunities to broaden community engagement by meeting audiences where they are and using relatable storytelling techniques to drive participation in the movement.

PolicyLink, in collaboration with Harmony Labs and Erin Potts, cultural researcher, conducted an analysis to understand how different audiences consume housing-related content on YouTube and identify opportunities to better engage them on housing justice issues. The following five takeaways reflect our high-level guidance on uprooting harmful narratives using messaging, language, storytelling, and data. 

  1. Center Stories of Personal Experiences With Housing Insecurity
  2. Let the Emotion Flow,  Let Intellectualizing Go
  3. Leverage Community-Oriented Holidays for Mobilization
  4. Weave Housing Justice Themes into Genres Like Gaming, Crime, and Horror
  5. Share Examples of Collective Action to Nurture Hope in a Brighter Future

Download the research brief

Download the mini-playbook

October 2024

Just Cause Legislation: A Comparison Across Seven States

Overview

Just cause tenant protections — also referred to as “good cause” or “for cause” — are designed to prevent arbitrary, retaliatory, or discriminatory evictions by establishing that landlords can only evict renters for specific reasons. While many cities have just cause ordinances, there has been a surge of state-level legislation in recent years. California and Oregon legislatures passed statewide just cause in 2019, Washington passed it in 2021, and both Colorado and New York passed it in the 2024 legislative session. These states join New Jersey and New Hampshire, who passed just cause legislation in 1974 and 2015, respectively. 

This tool is designed to help advocates compare and contrast each state’s just cause legislation. It has also been translated into Spanish and French. 

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