DURHAM HOMES GUARANTEE

What follows are ideas for moving toward a housing policy in Durham that would guarantee that good housing is accessible and affordable. It draws ideas from People's Action Homes Guarantee Briefing Book and adapts it to local conditions. It leads with a tentative Tenants Bill of Rights followed by ideas for City and County policy to prevent gentrification, rent gouging and other landlord abuses. We believe these policies on their own can help create a community where tenants thrive. But we are also compelled to endorse broad citywide policies that create racial equity and true community safety, including the permanent funding of a guaranteed basic income for residents. All policy recommendations can be assumed to be exclusively or primarily for the city level unless they are marked as (state-level) in which case they are primarily the purview of the state... Speculation on housing has been one of the most violent forces of alienation in our community and in America generally. It has..