Highlights from the Housing Justice Team

About this blog

This is a part of an ongoing series to highlight members of the Housing Justice Team, a group of people with lived experience of housing instability or houselessness who want to change our collective housing future.

The group started without a predetermined outcome, and what emerged organically was a space where advocates across the country chose to rely on each other for support and shared-learning while dreaming up our own and our collective impact on our world. Too often, the experience of being someone with lived experience in this work can be isolating and difficult, and we sought to carve out a space where we could dream about a future where we each could grow, make change, and thrive.

Grace Lee Boggs reminds us, “We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it's never a question of 'critical mass.' It's always about critical connections.” We’ve had the opportunity to experience it together– it’s through these critical connections that we get to live into a part of justice in our time.

About LaQuita Love-Limo :

 LaQuita is a Minnesotan by way of Mississippi. She is a mom, an educator, a student of life, and a housing justice activist. Laquita tells hard truths and invites people who she may disagree with into a conversation with clarity, grace, and sometimes also a little charm.

Hear about LaQuita’s reflections on being part of the Housing Justice Team:

Being on this team has been transformative, I have learned to show up as my authentic self, my curiosity has been welcomed, and embraced. This work is different because it has been done holistically.