9/21 update: We’re working to raise $2000 for storage for Christiana’s and her tenants’ belongings, and for moving trucks used the day they were evicted. Can you help here? They’re so grateful for all your support.

US Bank illegally foreclosed on Ms. Powell after it changed her family’s mortgage from FHA to conventional, ballooning payments from $800 to $3,500 a month. Donate, show up at the encampment at Christiana’s (the sheriff could come any day), sign this petition, and call officials.

Wednesday, July 17, 9 am-11 am. Our CBA reps will offer public comment in favor of the South Shore & 63rd and Blackstone Housing Preservation ordinance. Register here.

The organizer will develop and implement leadership development, base-building, and campaign plans.

After months of work, 90% of referendum voters in Tuesday’s election called on the City to put affordable housing at 63rd St and Blackstone Ave, and to pass an ordinance for South Shore like Woodlawn got in 2020.

Our member Ms. Tatum shared about the housing discrimination she faced when she worked at the University.

Join our town hall at 6pm on October’s fourth Tuesday. We’ll talk about the referendum on mental-health clinics now on November 8 ballots, and an affordable-housing referendum we want on February 2023 ballots.

STATEMENT FROM OUR CBA COALITION: “Luxury housing developers wanted the vacant land on 63rd Street. That there will be at least 157 affordable apartments on 63rd is thanks to everyday people coming together.”

Dear Lightfoot: South Shore needs a CBA ordinance, and Woodlawn needs you to come through on the housing land you guaranteed in your 2020 Woodlawn ordinance!

The ordinance says that, on 52 of the City-owned vacant lots - for 30% of new apartments developed on those lots - developers have to charge rents affordable to WORKING FAMILIES.

The 30 or so vacant City lots on 63rd St east of Cottage Grove Ave are a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make sure that working families don’t get pushed out of the neighborhood.

The annual summer kick-off by our Chicago Tenants Council. Back after two years’ COVID and better than ever!

“It's going to require us to really fight for that vision long-term... How we resist together over time [is by] centering people most impacted and treating each other with respect.”

Join our town hall on 3/22 at 6pm. And join ward night on 3/24 at 6pm with the City’s housing department.

Join STOP at our upcoming town hall for an update on the Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) fight for the 52 City-owned lots the ordinance committed for affordable housing.

Join a rally, press conference, and canvass for affordable housing on September 18, 2-6pm, at 63rd and University.

She shares: “I first got involved with STOP through Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100)'s participation in the CBA coalition. From the intergenerational participation to the town halls, I was hooked.”

Help STOP take our CBA work to the next level and continue to build the power of low income and working-class Black tenants in Woodlawn and surrounding neighborhoods.

And engage fellow members and neighbors about what we've learned and how our coalition should move forward.

After five years of hard-fought struggle, STOP, along with the Obama CBA Coalition and allies, have won a major victory.