In Columbus, the housing crisis is everywhere. People who have been left behind are begging on street corners. For those with housing, rents have skyrocketed, smaller landlords and properties have been bought up by massive corporations, and tenants have been forced to renew their leases or look for a new place to live sooner and sooner after moving in. "Affordable housing" has become a regular topic for city officials challenged by a frustrated public. But what does Columbus think "affordable housing" looks like?

The document above is connected to Columbus's infamous tax abatement policy--through which many large developments in our city pay zero property tax for years. That policy requires some developments to have 20% of housing units set aside for "affordable" housing: 10% to be "affordable and rented to households making up to 80% AMI [Area Median Income]" and an additional 10% "affordable and rented to households making up to 100% AMI".

Sunday, August 16, 2pm
Downtown Columbus
Black womens march is for people to see we have a voice too as black women and black young women. We want to show the community we are here for them we are here for justice and we are here for you. We will have food after the march as well .Everyone is invited no matter the gender all women please be in dresses shoes the color don’t matter.
 

If you live in a poor or even a middle class neighborhood, Donald Trump does not want you to vote, and if you do vote, he does not want your vote counted. Greg Palast, in his new book “How Trump Stole 2020” estimates that, in Georgia alone in the governors election (2018) 665,677 voters were purged, which equates to 2/3 of a million voters, or 1 in 8 Georgians.  Of those 340,134 voters were wrongly purged who had not moved from their last registered address. 

This is the playbook that the white racist Republican party has been using to steal elections over the last 20 or more years, ruling over minority citizens with a whip in hand.    Palast reports that purged voter numbers to date in 2020 are Ohio= 432,000, North Carolina=576,534, Arizona=258,008 and Wisconsin=99,000 (in progress).   

Saturday, August 15, 12noon
Join us at the intersection of north broadway and high as we demonstrate for peace and justice. bring a mask and a sign or two.