I pledge to:

Support the leadership and solutions of people most impacted by the
affordability and displacement crises, especially working-class
communities and communities of color.
Challenge people who are imposing solutions on working-class communities
and communities of color. I will call on them to follow communities’
lead instead.
Fight alongside people facing displacement and eviction to stay
in their homes.
Fight for new housing that truly meets the needs and incomes of
working-class communities and communities of color, not accept vast
amounts of luxury and high-end housing as the solution.
Fight for the power and voice of working-class communities and
communities of color to win development and policies that stabilize
their communities.

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Janis McQuarrie signed 2019-09-27 12:04:07 -0400

Janis McQuarrie
Kimberly Fox signed 2019-06-20 19:35:52 -0400
Audrey Martinez-Gudapakkam signed 2019-04-20 16:57:45 -0400

Audrey Martínez-Gudapakkam
Alexander Lussenhop signed 2019-03-18 13:37:20 -0400
Eric Douglass signed 2019-02-20 19:20:45 -0500
David Smith signed 2019-02-20 19:06:44 -0500
Benjamin Melançon signed 2018-12-20 00:45:04 -0500
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Nancy Marks signed 2018-10-22 18:03:55 -0400
Barbra Payne signed 2018-10-12 13:21:24 -0400
McMILLAN Gaither signed 2018-09-26 13:17:00 -0400

Thank you for your continued leadership CLVU and partners!
John Walkey signed 2018-09-26 12:13:34 -0400
Stephen Revilak signed 2018-09-25 19:43:52 -0400

I fully agree with and support your pledge, but after this weekend, I have deep reservations about supporting City Life/Vida Urbana. Saturday’s direct action was very distressing for me. I attended Yimbytown in search of strategies for fighting exclusionary zoning (i.e., the process whereby land use laws become tools for economic segregation — such that poor and working-class residents are confined to specific areas of a community, or kept out of that community altogether). Other attendees came with similar motiviations. For that effort in pursuit of economic justice, we’re greeted by 250 activists telling us how much we suck. Thank you for that.

I reached out to CL/VU in an attempt to explain my reasons for attending Yimbytown. The response I received implied that (a) I was making nothing more than an old argument about supply and demand, and (b) I lacked an understanding of structural oppression. Exclusionary zoning isn’t a form of structural oppression? Wow. Just wow. I have no idea how to respond to that.

The whole experience has left me hurt, disappointed, and sad.
Greg Pratt signed 2018-09-25 19:39:54 -0400
Milly Coogan signed 2018-09-25 17:58:59 -0400

I pledge to fight my suburban neighbors who want to keep people out, not those who are just trying to stay in their communities.
@scottsjackson84 tweeted link to this page. 2018-09-25 17:25:56 -0400
Sign the petition: I pledge to: http://www.justcauseboston.org/yimby_pledge?recruiter_id=39205
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Scott Jackson signed 2018-09-25 17:25:12 -0400
Ben Feingersh signed 2018-09-25 15:14:43 -0400
Barbara Darling signed via Siobhan S. O'Connor 2018-09-25 15:04:20 -0400
David Mynott II signed 2018-09-25 13:56:02 -0400

This is a People Power, the world’s new superpower!
Riordan Frost signed 2018-09-25 10:02:08 -0400
Liat Zavodivker signed 2018-09-25 00:02:33 -0400

As someone who has seen the deep scars that displacement can leave in a community, I hope we can work together to fight it from happening.
Janne Flisrand signed 2018-09-24 23:19:25 -0400

Thank you for fighting and for your work.
Charles Whitfield signed 2018-09-24 19:18:11 -0400
Holly Balcom signed via Darrell Owens 2018-09-24 16:24:38 -0400

A Portland YIMBY signing on.
Kyle Borland signed via Darrell Owens 2018-09-24 15:56:48 -0400
@mmelibbington tweeted link to this page. 2018-09-24 15:52:08 -0400
I signed the YIMBY pledge. We win when we work together http://www.justcauseboston.org/yimby_pledge?recruiter_id=39178
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Libby Lee-Egan signed via Darrell Owens 2018-09-24 15:50:52 -0400

Let’s work together to get and keep people housed!
Alex Novet signed via Darrell Owens 2018-09-24 14:44:30 -0400
Joe Rivano Barros signed via Darrell Owens 2018-09-24 14:38:25 -0400