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The bill in Oregon is just one example of how tenants and advocacy organizations are mobilizing for better rent stabilization measures in the face of rising rents and cost of living, according to a new report jointly produced by advocacy groups the Right to the City Alliance, Center for Popular D
PolicyLink, along with the Right To The City Alliance and the Center for Popular Democracy released a new report, Our Homes Our Future: How Rent Control Can Build Stable, Healthy Communities, that sheds light on the unprecedented scale of the crisis facing renters and establishes principles for e
Two out of three retail workers believe that technology will eventually replace some of their job responsibilities, underscoring the rising concern about the impact of automation and cutting-edge technology on the workplace.
Surrounded by more than 100 backers at a Feb.
The key outside groups involved in the drafting included nurses, doctors, disability rights activists, and advocates for the elderly, as well as public interest organizations such as Public Citizen and the Center for Popular Democracy.
Organizations and labor unions backing the bill—including Public Citizen, National Nurses United, Center for Popular Democracy, Business Initiative for Health Policy, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)—say that it has set a new bar for s
Some of other new groups backing the bill say their interest comes because Democrats are now on the offense.
The letter from Durham City Councilmember Javiera Caballero and Mecklenburg County Commissioner Susan Rodriguez-McDowell was sent to the media in a release from Local Progress, a project from the larger organization Popular Democracy.
The new report “Our Homes Our Future,” by PolicyLink Right to the City Alliance and Center for Popular Democracy, says “Leveraging this powerful yet underutilized tool would have tremendous payoff: if the rent control and tenant protection policies being debated right now in states and localities
In thinking about 2020, in thinking about both the Senate and the presidential race, this is a moment for us to put a marker down about the type of country we are trying to build,” said Jennifer Epps-Addison, president of the Center for Popular Democracy, a progressive advocacy group.
