Last Saturday, June 11th, Empower Missouri supporters, coalition members, staff and other guests gathered at the Piper Palm House in St. Louis to honor our six Advocates of the Year. It was wonderful to be back together in person, the first time in a long time for many of us, and it would not have...Lee mas

In many ways, housing advocacy should be easy. Everyone needs housing to thrive, therefore it should be as easily attainable as possible. However in reality, many topics get mixed in and make the conversation much more complicated. Deeply ingrained systemic racism, generational wealth, market volatility impacting rental and purchase prices, and low wages create an...Lee mas

Join Zoom Meeting online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89516136750?pwd=YlFrbFk0ZEhYU3FQQlNWQUZSaDNBdz09 Meeting ID: 895 1613 6750 Password: 169573 Join via cell phone or landline: DIAL: (301)-715-8592 CALL-IN CODE:  895 1613 6750# PASSWORD: *169573# Use this link to Sign up for the Affordable Housing Coalition Further Reading: NLIHC Out of Reach Report for Missouri Housing is the key – by Sarah Owsley TownsendLee mas

Join Zoom Meeting online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89516136750?pwd=YlFrbFk0ZEhYU3FQQlNWQUZSaDNBdz09 Meeting ID: 895 1613 6750 Password: 169573 Join via cell phone or landline: DIAL: (301)-715-8592 CALL-IN CODE:  895 1613 6750# PASSWORD: *169573# Use this link to Sign up for the Affordable Housing Coalition Further Reading: NLIHC Out of Reach Report for Missouri Housing is the key – by Sarah Owsley TownsendLee mas

We knew going into the legislative session that it would be a wild year. Unfortunately, wild years where very little gets done has become the normal legislative process in Missouri. It wasn’t designed to be this way. However, partisan infighting, electoral maps designed to favor one party, distrust in government and an overall breakdown in...Lee mas

Join Zoom Meeting online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89516136750?pwd=YlFrbFk0ZEhYU3FQQlNWQUZSaDNBdz09 Meeting ID: 895 1613 6750 Password: 169573 Join via cell phone or landline: DIAL: (301)-715-8592 CALL-IN CODE:  895 1613 6750# PASSWORD: *169573# Use this link to Sign up for the Affordable Housing Coalition Further Reading: NLIHC Out of Reach Report for Missouri Housing is the key – by Sarah Owsley TownsendLee mas

The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s newly released report, The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Homes, documents a shortage of 7 million affordable and available rental homes for our nation’s lowest-income renters, who make up one quarter of all renters in the U.S. This severe shortage forces 71% of our poorest families – seniors, people...Lee mas

First coined by sociologist Ruth Glass in the 1960s, gentrification has been part of the lexicon for those working in both economics and the affordable housing sector. Gentrification as an idea has changed over the years. For Glass it was the process wherein middle-class workers moved into the working-class neighborhoods of London, resulting in the...Lee mas

Join Zoom Meeting online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89516136750?pwd=YlFrbFk0ZEhYU3FQQlNWQUZSaDNBdz09 Meeting ID: 895 1613 6750 Password: 169573 Join via cell phone or landline: DIAL: (301)-715-8592 CALL-IN CODE:  895 1613 6750# PASSWORD: *169573# Use this link to Sign up for the Affordable Housing Coalition Further Reading: NLIHC Out of Reach Report for Missouri Housing is the key – by Sarah Owsley TownsendLee mas

Last week, I offered testimony against a pair of bills in the Missouri House and Senate aimed at reducing homelessness. I first celebrated with the sponsors and the committee members that the Missouri legislature should be doing more to address our neighbors who live outside; homelessness is an untenable situation that is below the dignity...Lee mas