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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 26/01/2026

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

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Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The City of LA states the “primary mission” of the Comprehensive Cleaning & Rapid Engagement pgm is to “deliver services to the individuals experiencing homelessness.” A new report asks, what does this $35M+/yr program translate into on the ground? challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2026/01/20/c...

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Los Angeles’s “CARE+” Homeless Services Program in Council District 11

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Grateful to our partners who are supporting this Friday's "Beyond Sanctuary" event. At a time of resurgent white nationalism, these dialogues are intended to resituate the imperial West in the global histories and possibilities of decolonization and abolition. RSVP>> beyondsanctuary.eventbrite.com

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Inner City Law Center @innercitylawcenter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

📣 JOIN US for our FREE monthly Tenant Rights Clinic 📅Thursday NOV 6 @ 5:30-7:30pm! 📣 Renters can walk in & receive free legal advice. Spread the word! #legalaid #tenantrights #rentersrights 📍Inner City Law Center Offices @ 1309 E 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90021

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

"Migrant movements" is a term used in the book, Beyond Sanctuary, that describes movement across borders, but also describes powerful organizing via migrant squats & cross-border solidarity action networks. Listen to the interview with Institute Director Ananya Roy @kpfa.org kpfa.org/episode/agai...

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Beyond Sanctuary | KPFA

If sanctuary and asylum policies and practices don’t do enough to protect immigrants, how is justice achieved? Ananya Roy’s focus is on how poor and vulnerable migrants are viewed and treated, and on ...

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

📌REMINDER>> Application deadline>> Wednesday, October 29th for the ninth cohort of the #UCLA Activist-in-Residence program. LA-based community organizers, movement leaders & artists are welcome to apply>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/activist-in-...

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

TODAY, October 17 at 12noon PT via #Stanford Global Studies Division>> Hear from #UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy Associate Faculty Director Hannah Appel. More info + RSVP for this online event>> events.stanford.edu/event/sgs-gl...

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

We invite you to join us in-person on Friday, November 14th for a convening to discuss our newest publication, BEYOND SANCTUARY, and its relevance to the moment at hand. RSVP>> beyondsanctuary.eventbrite.com

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Tenants around the nation are being deceived, taken advantage of and abused by their giant, profit-driven corporate landlords. We've had enough. Join us on October 1st as we announce a new legal-tech tool that could shift tenant power for the better. debtcollective.org/event/debt-s...

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Debt Strike! Abolish Corporate Landlords & Build Tenant Power

The rent is too damn high — and corporate landlords are to blame! Join the Debt Collective as we make a huge announcement: we’re launching a national Back-Rent Debt Strike against the fifth largest…

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

📣Announcing the 2026 #UCLA Activist-in-Residence CALL FOR APPLICATIONS in partnership w/the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. Spread the word to LA-based community organizers, movement leaders & artists. Deadline is Oct. 29>> Learn more & apply 👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/activist-in-...

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

"The rental debt strike borrows from the successful student debt playbook: small groups generating national media attention, moral framing that shifts blame from individuals to institutions, and strategic targeting of powerful actors’ alleged misconduct." www.vox.com/policy/46235...

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Tenants say it’s time for landlords to cancel back rent debt

Tenants are going on strike against their landlords.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

New: We're sparking a coordinated form of economic resistance that has never been done in the housing space. We're organizing a debt-strike. Rental debtors around the country will refuse to pay their back-rent debt to a giant corporate landlord. And we're going to win.

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I had the pleasure of reading the manuscript of Beyond Sanctuary for @dukepress.bsky.social months ago, and I am now thrilled to see it in print. Edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. Read it, share it, it is really worth it. Free access: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

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Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion

The contributors to Beyond Sanctuary examine how the liberal democracies of the West recognize and include racial others through technologies of state powe

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

As we gear up for the academic year, we're looking back at the 2025 capstone research projects supported by @challengeineq.bsky.social. We're endlessly impressed by the research questions our grad students take on & develop. Read the full reports👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/student-rese...

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

📖Just out from @dukepress.bsky.social>> Thinking across the U.S. and Europe BEYOND SANCTUARY critically examines liberal democratic policies of sanctuary and asylum and foregrounds migrant movements, those that demand a world beyond borders>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/08/20/b...

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Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion | Challenge Inequality

Book via Duke University Press co-edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky

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UCLA IRLE @uclairle.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Joel Montano (@challengeineq.bsky.social) shares best practices for following capital through land, how to connect firms to individuals, and how to map out real estate empires. 🏠📊

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Brilliant organizers & artists make for brilliant discussions. Shoutouts to #UCLA Activists-in-Residence Lupita Limón Corrales & @jaisuazo.bsky.social for bringing light💫 to struggle @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social. The "(Dis)placement" 📽️series continues thru August>> cinema.ucla.edu/events/displ...

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(Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home | UCLA Film & Television Archive

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

📽️Looking forward to this on Friday, July 18 @ 7:30pm 👇

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

REMINDER: This Sunday @ 7pm>> "Fluctuations of Home: Short Films From LA to DC" feat. #UCLA Activists-in-Residence @jaisuazo.bsky.social & Lupita Limon Corrales. Proud to co-sponsor this @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social film series, "(Dis)Placement: Fluctuations of Home." cinema.ucla.edu/events/fluct...

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Fluctuations of Home: Short Films From L.A. to D.C. | UCLA Film & Television Archive

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

If you missed this fascinating talk organized by @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social, tune in at your convenience👇 Featuring our very own Associate Faculty Director Hannah Appel, this brilliant trio explore how the legacies of imperialism & debt continue to shape the world order.

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

📻Interview w/@challengeineq.bsky.social researcher, Alex Ferrer>> Data from the #TenantPowerToolkit along with interviews reveal significantly disproportionate evictions of Black tenants in LA by REITs which have long-lasting effects on tenants' credit & housing access. www.kcrw.com/news/shows/p...

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‘Wall you can't get over’: When corporate landlord denies relief payments

Some Black tenants are disproportionately being evicted by Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in LA, a new UCLA study finds. KCRW hears from two sisters who’ve experienced this.

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Thx to @reporterliz.bsky.social for this coverage. Meaningful relationships w/communities on the frontlines of struggle along w/public scholarship are key to abolishing structures of inequality. Full report co-published w/Venice Justice Committee👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/06/25/k...

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“Keep Moving”: West LA Vehicle Residents Survey

A Venice Justice Committee Report via UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

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UCLA Film & Television Archive @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

“(Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home” Jul 13–Aug 17 The films in this series examine the fragile, shifting meaning of home — not just as shelter, but as identity, belonging and collective memory — in Los Angeles and global contexts. Free: ucla.in/43Pmv0H Co-presented by @challengeineq.bsky.social

Demonstrators holding a sign that says "Comite de la Esperanza."

Two women sitting and talking in a living room.

Two women and a baby sitting on a balcony.

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I got (a photo) published in an academic publication. A picture I took on my Olympus XA2 film camera during a bike ride accompanies a wonderful piece about LA and Palestine. @challengeineq.bsky.social pub Insurgent Ground can be found here: escholarship.org/uc/item/6mf8...

A photo of downtown LA. A winding dirt path in the foreground. The LA skyline in the background.

INSURGENT GROUND: LAND, HOUSING, PROPERTY
The Liberatory Politics of Land:
From Los Angeles to Palestine
Jessi Quizar, Mpho Raboeane, Kareem Rabie

INSURGENT GROUND: LAND, HOUSING, PROPERTY
UCLA LUSKIN INSTITUTE ON
INEQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY
ORGANIZED 2016
INSURGENT GROUND:
LAND, HOUSING, PROPERTY
Edited by Ananya Roy, Terra Graziani, Annie Powers
PUBLISHED BY UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
DESIGNED BY Em Dash
PUBLICATION MANAGEMENT BY Marisa Lemorande
PUBLICATION DATE May 5, 2025
ISBN 978-1-7351062-8-1
Photo credit (cover): Anthony Orendorff

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

"If some ppl prefer living in rundown RVs to the sorts of housing pgms offered, if any are offered to begin with, then govt officials ought to critically question the efficacy of their pgms rather than...destroying residents' vehicles & leaving them on the streets.” lapublicpress.org/2025/06/ucla...

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LA laws criminalize Westside vehicle dwellers, plunging them into parking ticket debt

A UCLA survey of nearly 100 people living in their vehicles found many also report harassment from housed neighbors, businesses, and police.

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

REPORT RELEASE: "Keep Moving" by the Venice Justice Committee & co-published by the Institute. Developed in collaboration w/organizers, community members w/lived experience of vehicle residency & university-based researchers. Report+virtual launch👇 challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/06/25/k...

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“Keep Moving”: West LA Vehicle Residents Survey

A Venice Justice Committee Report via UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Earlier this month we celebrated our phenomenal 2025 cohort of #UCLA Activists-in-Residence: Kari Okubo, Romarilyn Ralston, Kaya Dantzler, @jaisuazo.bsky.social & Lupita Limón Corrales! "Turning the university inside out,” they shared invaluable community-rooted knowledge & pedagogy with our campus.

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

"Through her leadership, CSW not only expanded its institutional impact, but also reaffirmed its commitments to being a refuge for research in social justice and community collaboration." Congrats to our colleague, comrade, and friend, Prof. Grace Hong🔥 csw.ucla.edu/2025/06/11/a...

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A Retrospective on the Directorship of Professor Grace Hong

Professor Grace Kyungwon Hong concludes her five-year tenure as Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center.

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

👇Read this thread and then go read @rahimk.bsky.social's newest publication, "Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing." We've added it to our summer reading list 📚

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Can't pay, won't pay.

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Excited to partner with @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social on the upcoming film series "(Dis)Placement: Fluctuations of Home." Join us for opening night on July 13th with #UCLA Activists-in-Residence @jaisuazo.bsky.social, Lupita Limon Corrales & filmmaker Diego Robles>> cinema.ucla.edu/events/displ...

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

"Corporate landlords are systematically attracting Black residents into white, upmarket neighborhoods, stripping their wealth, and then kicking them out again." The Institute's own graduate researcher, Alex Ferrer, reveals striking findings with unprecedented data from the #TenantPowerToolkit.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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The rise of end times fascism

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

What an honor it was to have @naomiaklein.bsky.social give the Institute's Third Annual Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing. "Climate justice is not a luxury policy for better days. It is how we fight fascism." View her full lecture here>> challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/naomi-klein/

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Naomi Klein | Challenge Inequality

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Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

So excited for this!! Naomi Klein at @challengeineq.bsky.social

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Hot off the press🔥"Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property"📚An edited volume of collective scholarship from Freedom School 2024, which brought together a phenomenal group rooted in movements and engaged in organizing knowledge towards liberation. challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/2025/05/05/i...

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Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property | Challenge Inequality

Edited by Ananya Roy, Terra Graziani, Annie Powers via UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

As authorities in Oregon displace over 100 vehicle residents and provide no alternative place to go, all in the name of environmental management, it is worth revisiting Institute fellow Sam Lutzker and Deike Peters' call for "multispecies justice" >> metropolitics.org/A-Crisis-of-...

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A Crisis of Habitation in LA’s Last Remaining Wetland

As housing crises become increasingly entangled with environmental crises, the question of just outcomes requires different ways of thinking. In their exploration of the politics of Los Angeles' Ballo...

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

We couldn't be more proud to support work by The Rent Brigade, a group of dedicated scholars & organizers who are exposing the LLCs, trusts, and investment vehicles that are rent gouging folks across LA County, alongside the epic failure of enforcement. Read this➡️ www.rentbrigade.org/report-april...

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The Rent Brigade — Report on Rent-Gouging

2025 Report on Rent-Gouging: After the LA Fires: Rent-Gouging in the Wake of Disaster

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

📣Postdoc opportunity! The selected candidate will develop the research, "Evictions and forced displacements: new urban dynamics from the mobilization of ‘risk’ as a device for territorial restructuring" under the supervision of the incomparable Professor @raquelrolnik.bsky.social 👇

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

🔥Badass is right! UCLA Activist-in-Residence Lupita Limón Corrales of @latenantsunion.bsky.social made a presentation to a group of tenants, and what became the Mohawk Street Tenants Association grew from there. Read more about this badass group of individuals who are changing policy citywide 👇

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Grateful to have @movelbforward.bsky.social Exec Director @jaisuazo.bsky.social as our 2025 #UCLA Activist-in-Residence. Speaking to #UCLA students on the topic of community organizing: "How we organize is based on relationships - relationships are the bedrock of how we approach any social issue."

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Looking forward to hearing from @challengeineq.bsky.social comrade and #UnequalCities researcher, Professor Gautam Bhan, on April 16th👇

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

🎊Kick off the weekend in Chicago & join the National Public Housing Museum for its grand opening, April 4-6. Thrilled to announce selections from the "Tents and Tenants: After Echo Park Lake" exhibition are on view inside the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes: nphm.org/event/grand-...

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WBEZ @wbez.org · 03/04/2025

The National Public Housing Museum opens Friday. While many Chicagoans are familiar with the disinvestment, decaying buildings and gang violence associated with the projects, the museum aims to paint a fuller picture of the history of public housing. www.wbez.org/arts-culture...

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The National Public Housing Museum opens this week in Chicago. Here’s a sneak peek.

The museum tells a less familiar story about the history of public housing. “It was a decent, lovely place to live,” a former resident says.

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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality & Democracy @challengeineq.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

C'mon out this Saturday, March 29 to celebrate the closing of the "TENTS AND TENANTS: After Echo Park Lake" exhibition at Skid Row History Museum & Archive. Echo Park Mutual Aid & The Sidewalk Project will host a 🍲potluck + harm reduction teach-in that includes Narcan demo, wound care, and safe use⚕️

TENTS AND TENANTS: After Echo Park Lake Exhibition Closing Celebration. Image of gallery with Lady of the Lake and event details.

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