Priorities
Across the state, this group of people are considered to be the base and power of the FHJA.
Who are renters + manufactured home residents?
This criteria describes FHJA's members.
Who are organizations located in Florida, focused on housing justice, with a core membership of low-income renters/manufactured home residents or orgs that support such groups?
Campaigns where each works to advance campaigns in their own municipality and coordinates strategy, messaging, and policy goals across those geographies.
What are translocal campaigns?
These are the responsibilities of an FHJA member in good standing.
What is contribute to FHJA, participate in reg meetings, name an MC rep, allocate staff time to work groups, complete work between meetings?
In an effort to win rent control, tenants rights, and community control of the land, FHJA runs these.
What are state and local campaigns?
FHJA meets with this frequency to get stuff done together, make plans, meet in working groups, make decisions, formally vote as a Membership Council if needed.
What is monthly meetings?
Campaigns that can't be advanced locally because of state law which can be proactive (win something we want) or defensive (stop something bad).
What are state-level campaigns?
Makes up the Membership Council.
Who is one representative with decision-making power from each membership organization that signs an MOU (and an alternate)?
To buck capitalist competition in the movement and strengthen state-based base-building work, FHJA employs these key strategies.
What are multi-org convenings, joint fundraising, and state and translocal campaigns?
Quarterly meetings are different from FHJAs monthly meetings in this way.
What is they are open to new member orgs + community members, they provide updates, we gather feedback, and do political education.
This body within FHJA is responsible for creating proposals for legislative priorities, building relationships with state-level legislators, creating rapid response toolkits, and planning actions.
Who is the state campaigns workgroup?
Decisions like launching a campaign, taking a public action, publicly endorsing/opposing a bill, spending more than $10k, and creating new working groups require this kind of vote.
What is a majority vote of active members of the Membership Council?
FHJA member organizations have housing work we do outside of the collective. These core strategies are what we agreed to do together.
What is multi-org convening, state legislative and translocal campaigns, and joint fundraising?
These things make you an active FHJA member with a vote.
This body within FHJA will hold strategy across local campaigns, draft shared platforms for translocal advocacy, and plan actions.
Who is the translocal campaigns workgroup?
Decisions like launching a campaign, taking a public action, or publicly endorsing/opposing a bill require this kind of vote.
What is a majority of base-building active members of the Membership Council?
This is the vision FHJA is fighting for.
What is stopping displacement, and ensuring affordable homes, and community control of land across Florida.
These two things distinguish FHJA three different kinds of members.
What is whether they are member-led/base-building orgs or they are based in FL?
This body within FHJA creates materials to help community members understand what FHJA fights for and hosts quarterly meetings for pop ed and key strategy decisions.
Who is the political education & convenings workgroup?
Following a process of pitching potential campaigns, this body ultimately approves FHJA's state and translocal campaign priorities.
Who is the Membership Council with a majority of active base-building member organizations.