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Help Affirm the Right to Organize adopted by National Alliance of HUD Tenants (NAHT) on April 19, 1998 The right of residents to organize is fundamental to our human right to decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing. Unfortunately, harassment by owner and management representatives of tenants who assert these rights is a widespread problem in HUD-assisted housing across America. The recent illegal arrests of organizers in Los Angeles and Dallas for leafleting or meeting with residents in their own apartments are only the most dramatic instances of the institutional racism and petty tyrannies which persist in HUD housing. The climate of fear and intimidation which results is profoundly undemocratic. HUD has done little to protect tenants and organizers or to enforce its own regulations protecting the right to organize.--from the Preamble If you would like to help get signatures on the petition being circulated nationally by NAHT, please contact Betty Johns Burton at the DHC office. ¡Tenemos Derechos! Atencion: Coming soon: Farewell to friends and thanks for many a job well done: Clarence Elliott, Jr., who is leaving his work as organizational development advisor with SWAT through the Center for Community Change. Sandra Hobby, who is retiring from the DHC Board of Directors to pursue motherhood. Joe Kyle, leaving the DHC Board and his position at Interfaith Housing, to move to new work in Johnson City, Tennessee. The Housing Journal, Fall 1998
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