Housing Works Advocacy has mobilized hundreds...

In recent months, Housing Works Advocacy has mobilized hundreds in both DC and NYC to demand common sense gun control legislation in March For Our Lives; organized our community to made hundreds of phone calls and send over 180 advocates to Albany to bird-dog state elected officials to save Health Homes and push for statewide rental assistance for people with HIV; and convened hundreds at rallies, sit-in at City Hall to demand that Mayor de Blasio take action to end overdose deaths by coming out in support of Safer Consumption Sites (SCS) and releasing the SCS feasibility report commissioned by the City Council two years ago.

HOUSING WORKS ADVOCACY IN THE NEWS:*

“Injection Facility Advocates Accuse de Blasio of Putting Politics Ahead of Public Health,” Politico, 4.5.18.

“Protesters Force de Blasio to Use Side Entrance at City Hall,” New York Post, 4.5.18.

“March For Our Lives: “Our Message to the World. “ BBC News, 3.24.18.

“Panic as TB is in the Rise in New York for the First Time Since the Early 1990s,” Daily Mail (U.K.), 3.22.18.

“City Reopens Its Chelsea Health Clinic,” Gay City News, 3.19.18

“Affordable Housing Need for Those With HIV,” Spectrum News, Capital Tonight, 3.15.18.

* These represent select media coverage. To view all advocacy media, see www.housingworks.org/press.


—Mikola De Roo, rider and VP of Advocacy Communications and Marketing at Housing Works