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Featured Partner Webinar Series: New Tools and Strategies to Advance Housing Justice Narrative

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Aug 19 - 1:00pm ET | 12:00pm CT | 11:00am MT | 10:00am PT

Long before the COVID pandemic laid bare the human cost of housing injustice in the United States, access to housing has been one of the dominant drivers of race and gender inequity in this country. While there has been a deep and rich history of housing organizing and policy advocacy, this moment demands that we come together to employ new tools to frame the debate and win meaningful change. 

For the past nine months Community Change, PolicyLink, and Race Forward with the support of Funders for Housing and Opportunity have been collaborating in a public opinion research project to develop tools and strategies for housing. Their work draws from lessons learned from the Race-Class Narrative Project, as well as research and analysis from ASO Communications in summer 2019. For this project, they contracted with Lake Research Partners to conduct a series of focus groups in early 2020 followed by a national phone poll that concluded in late April.  

Now they are ready to share the lessons learned and new narrative tools with partners and allies working for housing justice. Join this webinar series by Community Change, PolicyLink, and Race Forward to learn about new tools and strategies to advance a housing justice narrative intended to help organizers and advocates achieve our collective goals of racial justice and homes for all.

 

Webinar Schedule
(all webinars from 1:00-2:30pm ET/Noon-1:30pm CT/11:00am-12:30pm MT/10:00-11:30am PT)

June 10           #1: What we learned from the research - Recording is available here.

June 24           #2: Narrative Strategy 202: Deep narrative and narrative alignment - Recording is available here.

July 8              #3: What’s Race Got to Do with It? - Recording is available here.

July 29            #4: Cultural strategy: Expanding impact of narrative through art and culture

Aug 19            #5: Driving narrative with legislative proposals and policy fights

 

Hosts
Community Change, PolicyLink, and Race Forward

 

Registration
To register for this series by Community Change, PolicyLink, and Race Forward, click the registration button below and fill out the Google form

 

WHEN
August 19, 2020 at 1:00pm - 2:30pm
CONTACT
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