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Current Opportunities

Current Advocacy Opportunities

Advocacy is one of our many guiding principles. As such, we affirm that direct services to the homeless will include advocacy, and that the work of the Washtenaw Housing Alliance will include changing institutional policies and practices, training of professionals, policy and legislative change, educating funders, and raising hell when necessary.

Local Advocacy Opportunities

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Vote NO on City Prop A

On November 6th, City of Ann Arbor voters will be asked to vote on Proposal A. The Washtenaw Housing Alliance (WHA) Board voted at its most recent Board meeting to oppose Proposal A, and WHA encourages Ann Arbor voters to vote “NO”. WHA member agencies and allies are encouraged to share this advocacy alert with their networks.  

Background

Proposal A would amend the Ann Arbor City Charter to require that the City-owned Library Lot be designated, in perpetuity, as an Urban Park and Civic Center Commons. Since there is no support from the City for this proposal and no funding for this Park and Commons, the land would sit vacant as a surface parking lot and underground parking garage. Alternatively, the City of Ann Arbor has been working with a developer, Core Spaces, to develop the site as a hotel, apartments, retail space, and office space, and create a 12,000 square-foot public plaza that will operate with the same rules as a city park.

In selling the development rights of the Library Lot to Core Spaces, the City of Ann Arbor has agreed to put half the proceeds of the sale of the Lot, (estimated to be $5 million), into the City’s Affordable Housing Fund to create permanent affordable housing in Ann Arbor. This much-needed support for affordable housing will not be realized if Ann Arbor voters support Proposal A. Since 2014, WHA and its member agencies have actively advocated in support of the City’s vision to sell the Library Lot and use proceeds from the sale for affordable housing. The WHA Board’s Resolution, which summarizes the Board’s numerous reasons for opposing Proposal A, can be viewed online here.

To learn more about the opposition to Proposal A and support this “Vote No” effort, visit https://www.everyoneloseswithcitypropa.com/.


Coalition for Re-Envisioning Our Safety (CROS) – see endorsements here.

Back in April 2021, Ann Arbor City Council passed a resolution directing the City Administrator to develop an unarmed public safety response program by the end of the year. The city program has not yet been developed and implemented, but CROS is pushing forward by continuing with its outreach efforts and focusing on the actual logistical details of setting up the new program. The program, which is seeking $3 million in public funding, now has formal endorsements from over 850 individual supporters and over 40 local community organizations. The hope is, once a safety program is in place in Ann Arbor, to eventually replicate it throughout all of Washtenaw County. Read more on the CROS plan as well as the most recent news on what’s next for the Coalition.

WHA Development Committee – contact to join here.

The Development Committee is responsible for assisting the WHA Board to carry out its due diligence function related to assuring fiscal health through philanthropy and fund development.

 

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