U.S : SIGN THIS To Help These Families Save Minneapolis Public Housing.

Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition (DG&PHC) just started a petition to demand Minneapolis Mayor Frey and Minneapolis Public Housing Authority ( MPHA): 

Stop all of their plans to convert all public housing properties in Minneapolis to private ownership.

Sign Now! →  Dear friend, We are Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition (DG&PHC), a resident-led grassroots campaign organizing to defend public housing in Minneapolis. We are all low-income families of color -- Black and Black Muslim communities, refugees, immigrants, East Africans, elders/seniors, and people with disabilities -- organizing together to fight from being displaced from our homes. And, we need your help. Our public housing in Minneapolis is at risk of going to private developers! Please sign our petition to demand MPHA, Mayor Jacob Frey, and Minneapolis City Council stop all of their plans to convert all public housing properties to private ownership. Mayor Frey and Minneapolis Public Housing Authority ( MPHA)’s are scheming behind closed doors to privatize all public housing. They think that they can pull a fast one on us as a community of mostly Black immigrant and Muslim families, by conducting their planning during our observed fasting for our Holy Month of Ramadan. Violating public and transparent process, the city has failed to notify all public housing residents, to hold public meetings, to provide 30 day notice to submit comments, to allow public comments during board meetings, and to provide access to the documents (including translated versions for our majority immigrant members). City officials thinks they can give away over 6040 units, 42 high-rises, over 740 homes to greedy private developers who see fat dollar signs in converting to all market-rate housing. This would force out over 11,000 vulnerable tenants and 17,000 stuck on MPHA’s waiting lists. This is how Black people get pushed out and displaced from their neighborhoods to make room for white people. And for many immigrant and refugee children and families, we’ve already suffered the trauma of being displaced from our homes. We can’t let that happen. Please sign our petition to stop MPHA’s and Mayor Frey's plans gentrify Minneapolis, and worsen the housing crisis. If MPHA and Mayor Frey plans succeed to convert public housing to private ownership, Black families will be hit first and the hardest. Flipping public housing into high end market-rate units hurts low-income families, but all Minneapolis families will feel the pain of less available, real affordable housing options. There will no longer be protections for the most vulnerable population of our city. Since 2000, the average income for Black Families in Minneapolis dropped by 40% while rents doubled. 80% of public housing residents are Black, and the vast majority of renters in Minneapolis are people of color. Black families in Minneapolis who earn around the middle range can afford to spend $522 on rent each month.  But, your average rent for a two bedroom is $1,984. SIGN PETITION If you think that families shouldn't be forced to pick between a roof over their children's heads and food on the table for their children. Private sector shouldn’t be pocketing your tax dollars as pure profit. Private developers want to get their hands on public and low- income rental units and price them to make a windfall off wealthy families and incoming gentrifiers. Flooding our housing market with high end market-rate units will fuel gentrification, push out residents and turn Minneapolis into a city catering to the rich. Privatizing public housing will deepen the racial and class divides already challenging Minneapolis. MPHA is sitting on $ 23 million surplus, and they have just received 54.58% increase from HUD in Capital Funds  Grant. But MPHA and Mayor Jacob Frey want to give all of the funds and out tax dollars to private developers instead of keeping our homes public on public land as they have been since the creation of public housing in 1937. Please join me as we work to Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition  and STOP the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority from displacing residents from their homes and communities. MPHA is doing this so that they can make a profit by doing business with private developers. No business with private developers is worth the cost of our children being put out on the street and thousands of Black and Brown families becoming homeless. An attack on public housing is an attack on human rights. Please join in our fight to keep our neighborhood alive by defending Glendale. Thank you for standing with us, The Families and Tenants of the Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition Sign Now! →  Color Of Change is building a movement to elevate the voices of Black folks and our allies, and win real social and political change. Help keep our movement strong.