What discrimination should women be aware of in finding and keeping adequate housing? How can our communities adopt solidarity policies to keep housing stable, safe, and available for women and people of color?
Tune in to this conversation to get those answers—and learn so much more about the feminist future of housing policy! Counting on Women is our new, up close, and personal conversation series of digital fireside chats with individuals who are working to change our economy in positive ways that address women's omission from economics as usual and ways to find new solutions.
This conversation was a follow-up to our Zoom of Our Own on housing equity in July. Click here to tune in and access a curriculum for further learning. Rasheedah also shared PolicyLink’s Anti-Displacement Toolkit, including a map tracking Tenant/Community Opportunity to Purchase campaigns, and new tools on rent registries and rent stabilization (8 tools total).
ABOUT THE PANELISTS:
Rasheedah Phillips, Esq. leads PolicyLink’s national advocacy to support the growing tenants’ rights, housing, and land use movements in partnership with grassroots partners, movement leaders, industry, and government leaders. Previously serving as Managing Attorney of Housing Policy at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, Rasheedah has led various housing policy campaigns that resulted in significant legislative changes, including a right to counsel for tenants in Philadelphia, and the Renter’s Access Act, one of the strongest laws in the nation to address blanket ban eviction polices having a disparate impact on renters of color. Rasheedah has trained on racial justice and housing law issues and skills throughout the country, previously serving as the Senior Advocate Resources & Training Attorney at Shriver Center on Poverty Law. Rasheedah’s leadership has been recognized with the recipient of the 2017 National Housing Law Project Housing Justice Award, the 2017 City & State Pennsylvania 40 Under 40 Rising Star Award, the 2018 Temple University Black Law Student Association Alumni Award, and more. Rasheedah is also an interdisciplinary afrofuturist artist and cultural producer who has exhibited and performed work globally.
She will be in conversation with Rickey Gard Diamond—author of Screwnomics: How Our Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change and the “Women Unscrewing Screwnomics” column at Ms. magazine, and founder of AEOO.
ABOUT THE SERIES:
As some feminist epistemologists (Gilligan, Belenky et al.) have taught us, seeing and seeking connections seems to be women’s ways of knowing. Our economics is lived in real complex communities. Our goal is to model how women can talk together and learn together about traditionally male territory still new to most women.
Our Counting on Women series empowers women to share their knowledge and expertise through conversations with one another—flipping the script on a racist, sexist economy.