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.”

We just put a mental-health referendum on key areas’ ballots! We now have more opportunity than ever to re-open clinics through annual budgeting this fall. Let’s discuss at our town hall.

On mental health: If you live in the 6th ward, join our next community meeting on Saturday, August 20 at the Whitney Young library at 10:30am. Also read about our tenants and youth!

Our new restorative-justice coordinator says: “Thanks to STOP, I’m being the change I want to see in my school.” Help us start our new budget-year strong.

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.

Register for our town hall 5/24 5-6:15pm with our youth organizers. Mayor Lightfoot wants to slash budgets at schools hit hardest by the pandemic - the South and West sides’.

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!

Get to know our new restorative-justice coordinator, Anna Durr, and housing organizers, Marilyn Harper and Porsche’ Patrice. And join them at a housing town hall this Saturday at 11am in Woodlawn.

“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.”

Contribute today, so we can hit the streets as we haven’t in two years. We STOP youth, mental-health, and tenant members want to knock on doors and reach out to our community!

On Zoom on May 5. Jay Travis will speak. STOP is demanding housing reparations from UChicago. Let’s reconnect and share how recent decades’ allies have contributed to this!

On 4/26 at 6pm, let’s discuss how work against ShotSpotter and solitary confinement connect to our work for community-led alternatives to policing and prisons.

Join STOP in pushing to end this torture of Illinois prisoners. So far Illinois’s House has passed this bill, named for Anthony Gay, who endured 22 years in solitary confinement.

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

City Hall is holding a hearing on an ordinance to help fund a robust PUBLIC mental health care system. Join us on Wed. 2/23, especially if you live around Chatham, Englewood, Grand Crossing, or Auburn-Gresham!

Get updates from our youth organizers - on the fight for a police-free Hyde Park Academy, and on the upcoming Local School Council election!

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.

We’ll say a few words in celebration of you — our members — and your dedication throughout 2021!