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National Alliance of HUD Tenants

A multi-cultural, tenant-controlled alliance of tenant organizations in privately-owned, multifamily HUD-assisted housing. Hundreds of tenant associations representing thousands of tenants in every region of the country are already involved, working together to:

Preserve affordable housing * Protect tenants' rights * Promote tenant ownership and control

National Alliance of HUD Tenants
42 Seaverns Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
tel: (617) 267-9564
fax: (617) 522-4857
naht@saveourhomes.org

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International Housing Rights Days

The Habitat International Coalition (HIC) is a worldwide network of grass-roots organizations and activists dedicated to Housing Rights for All. NAHT became the first US national tenants union to join HIC in 2003 and has since become a board member representing North America. HIC has issued a Call to Action to mobilize coordinated Housing Rights Days of Action in cities across the globe to affirm the universal Right to Housing Now, and to protest policies which undermine housing and land rights, as manifested through deregulation and privatization of social housing and basic utilities such as water; forced evictions and mass displacement of the poor; housing budget cuts; and the on-going plight of those without homes or land. The goal is to raise global awareness of lack of housing or “security of tenure” issues through the media and to help housing rights movements advance their local and national agendas.

Events are scheduled to take place throughout the month of September and October, coinciding with World Habitat Day called by the United Nations each year in early October. Plans in different cities are being finalized and as they become available, we will post them here. If you would like to post your local event for an International Housing Rights Day, Please contact us.

2004 International Housing Rights Day

>"http://www.hic-net.org/online/HIC-HD-ENG.pdf"

2003 International Housing Rights Day around the globe

2003 Save Our Homes Days in the US

In the US, NAHT has joined with the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) and other groups to fight the Bush Administration's proposal to throw at least 184,000 families out of their homes in this year's federal housing budget. This is the first time in the 30 year history of the federal Section 8 subsidy program that an Administration and both houses of Congress have proposed to not provide enough funds to allow all low income families aided by Section 8 to stay in their homes. The US Congress will be debating the Bush budget proposals in October. The groups will also support the Bringing America Home Act, filed by NCH, Which for the first time references Housing as a human right.

INTERNATIONAL HOUSING RIGHTS DAY 2002

BACKGROUND

The US has lost well over 250,000 units of government subsidized housing for low income people since the UN Habitat II Conference in 1996, which committed the US to do more, not less, to build and save people’s homes. There has been no federal low income rental housing construction program since 1983. Instead, the government has approved 140,000 units of public housing for demolition. The US still promotes “privatization” and “deregulation” of subsidized housing -- disastrous strategies that have failed in the energy, telecommunications, airline industries in the US and across the globe. US subsidies for wealthy landlords and homeowners still exceed rental subsidies for low income people by three to one. The National Alliance of HUD Tenants has long held Save Our Homes Day actions in the US. In 2002, NAHT joined the IUT, the National Coalition for the Homeless, and ENPHRONT (the national organization of public housing residents) for International Save our Homes Day.