On call today w/dozens of leaders from rental housing field I shared top COVID-19 priorities:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="White heavy check mark" aria-label="Emoji: White heavy check mark"> Reduce harm to people who are homeless

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="White heavy check mark" aria-label="Emoji: White heavy check mark"> Permanently house homeless people

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="White heavy check mark" aria-label="Emoji: White heavy check mark"> Ensure nobody else becomes homeless

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="White heavy check mark" aria-label="Emoji: White heavy check mark"> Preserve affordable housing

Here’s how:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="White heavy check mark" aria-label="Emoji: White heavy check mark"> More $ for Emergency Solutions Grants: $11.5B

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="White heavy check mark" aria-label="Emoji: White heavy check mark"> National moratorium on evictions/foreclosures

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="White heavy check mark" aria-label="Emoji: White heavy check mark"> $100B in rental assistance

We must center racial equity in the response design/implementation. Structural racism results in POC being disproportionately poor & rent burdened. Black & Native people are disproportionately homeless. Black people are disproportionately dying from COVID-19.

Lower income renters are disproportionately POC. Higher income renters are mostly white. Let’s keep this in mind when designing solutions and be sure that we don’t exacerbate racial inequities but instead correct them.