We Demand Community Control of Housing

5. We Demand Community Control of Housing We believe that a land reform law that provides for collective community control of housing is absolutely necessary for an end to homelessness, the artificially high cost of rent, the substandard housing, the hundreds of abandoned houses within the city and the forced relocation of the African population due to gentrification.

We demand an end to the U.S. government imposed martial law which turns public housing into prison camps for African people. We denounce the public housing authorities for their fraud and parasitic rip-off of African people as thousands of African people go homeless. We demand an end to the anti-democratic sweeps of the housing project, which violate constitutionally-protected laws against search and seizure. We demand an end to the abrogation of democratic rights in the housing projects, including leases that extort tenants into giving up their rights against search and seizure and that violate constitutionally protected rights to bear arms.

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