Alchemy of Housing Justice

The Housing Justice Team is a group of people with lived experience of housing instability or houselessness who want to change our collective housing future. The group started without a predetermined outcome, and what emerged organically was a space where advocates across the country chose to rely on each other for support and shared-learning while dreaming up our own and our collective impact on our world. In this episode we’ll talk with the team and how our impact and vision emer...

When we talk about community ownership, we’re talking about moving decision-making power to people in the community who have lived experience of the systems we are working to transform. In this way, community ownership is central to housing justice. It’s the root-system; it gives us the platform we need to grow transformed structures where people can thrive. In this conversation, we are starting with intimacy and relationshi as the seed that allows those roots to grow and develop. Our guest, ...

With the Supreme Court making a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision in June, our country’s history of restricting bodily and family autonomy becomes front and center in the public discourse. In this episode, Tiffany Haynes joins us for a conversation about the connections between reproductive justice, bodily autonomy and housing justice. Credits: The Producer of Alchemy of Housing Justice is Terrance Walker, aka Tré Ward. Find out more about his activism and mu...

Join us for a conversation with author, artist, and activist and producer of this podcast, Terrance Walker for a behind the scenes look into our production, and how we are trying to live into our values and use radical imagination in the everyday work of making this podcast. Credits: The Producer of Alchemy of Housing Justice is Terrance Walker, aka Tré Ward. Find out more about his activism and musical gifts to us here.This podcasted is hosted by the amazing Sarah Hunter. This podcast w...

This episode is a conversation about the concepts of othering and belonging, and the impact we might have if we could move housing and homeless systems and structures from ones that are built around “othering” over to ones that are built around “belonging.” We are diving into the ideas and thoughts of John Powell- his teachings, speaking and writing, and that of the Othering & Belonging Institute. And we talk about how belonging has guided the Regional Kitchen Table in the Twin Cities Met...

You might recognize the saying “change yourself to change the world.” It’s an idea that a fair number of movement leaders have leaned into throughout history. In this episode, we explore the ideas that come from the life, activism, and teachings and ways of being of a beautiful ancestor, Grace Lee Boggs and how they will help us get to housing justice. Alexander “Lex” Rey Perez (Ifa Segun Funmi) joins us in this episode to talk about his ideas on collective responsibility and who we are...