Housing Justice Is… (Panel & Fundraiser)

Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Location: El Centro de la Raza (Room 107), 2524 16th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144

Tickets are available for a sliding scale suggested donation starting at $20 (up through $250). We need all the help we can get to keep Be:Seattle strong.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If you’re unable to make a donation, please email [email protected] to RSVP. 

Event sponsor: Seattle Democratic Socialists of America 🌹 Housing Justice Workgroup

Light refreshments will be served. Masking is strongly encouraged when not eating or drinking. 

Housing justice isn’t just about rent—it’s about power, dignity, and tearing down a system that creates scarcity to keep us in line.

Join us for a panel and fundraiser exploring what housing justice really means, how it’s part of the broader fight for liberation, and why solidarity and care are the foundation of the movement.

We’re excited to welcome Tracy Rosenthal, co-founder of the LA Tenants Union and co-author of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, as a keynote speaker and panelist. She will be joined by:

• Amy Sundberg, public safety reporter at The Urbanist, publisher of Notes from the Emerald City, and fiction writer. Amy’s past organizing experience includes People Power Washington and the Seattle Solidarity Budget.
• Julissa Sánchez, community organizer, writer, advocate, and mother working for collective liberation through policy reform, cultural education, and transformative justice. Julissa serves on the Seattle Renters’ Commission and helped lead the fight for Just Cause protections in Burien and statewide.
• Tye Reed, co-founder of House Our Neighbors, chair of Be:Seattle’s board of directors, and an organizer in Seattle focused on ending the inhumane treatment of poor and unhoused neighbors.

The panel will be moderated by Renaissance, a hip-hop and spoken word artist and intersectional organizer and activist engaged in the struggle for Black and Brown Liberation since 2014. Renaissance is currently a Campaign Director at 350 Seattle, and organizes with Whose Streets Our Streets, May First Coalition, Seattle MLK Organizing Coalition, and Seattle Solidarity Budget.

Nationally, we’re seeing escalating attacks on housing, healthcare, education, and basic rights. Washington State is moving forward with an austerity budget that threatens critical public services, and instead of planning ahead to protect Seattle’s renters and unhoused communities, the Seattle Mayor and City Council have been targeting them—slashing funding for tenant services, raiding funds for affordable housing to pay for more policing and surveillance, increasing dangerous sweeps, trying to undermine social housing, and now working to roll back the protections we fought to win. Be:Seattle needs your support to stay in this fight.

Every contribution matters. If you’re not attending, you can still support our work at beseattle.org/donate.