Page 3 - Advocates Guide Demo

Foreword
● The places where we live shape our lives and our health. Our communities and neighborhoods affect our health in important ways. When people’s homes are near parks and bike paths, exercise is easier. When people live near grocery stores where good food is available, it’s easier to eat healthy. Things within or near our homes, like lead, mold, and other toxins can make us sick. And when housing is really expensive, it makes it hard to afford to go to the doctor, join sports leagues, or eat well, which harms our health.
● That’s why we need to make sure that all neighborhoods have access to what we all need to be safe, happy, healthy, and whole. This means safe, habitable, affordable homes, stores with healthy food, schools, transit, health care, polling locations, community centers, parks, and land and water free of industrial toxins regardless of your zip code.
● The private housing market is failing. It’s designed to make the rich richer, while more and more of us can't afford rent or to buy a place of our own. When systems are designed to boost private profits, they always fail to meet the needs of the people.
● Together we can demand that greedy corporate landlords and the politicians who support them listen to the demands of tenants, residents of public and subsidized housing, and people experiencing homelessness for deep and wide investments in safe, affordable housing, an end to evictions and discrimination in housing, and landlord accountability.