Improve Charlottesville's Affordable Housing
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At QCC, we believe our city is no better than its worst neighborhood. We are actively advocating on the local and state levels for safe, affordable housing. | Housing group criticizes Bush's budget proposal | | President Bush's proposed budget for fiscal 2007 asks Congress to make steep cuts in social programs, a housing analyst told a group of public housing residents and activists. | | Charlottesville Daily Progress - Jun 10, 2006 |
| Statewide Low-Income Housing Conference
 In June, 2006, QCC co-sponsored "Save Our Housing, Save Our Homes: a Statewide Conference on Low-Income Housing" attended by nearly 200 residents and advocates of low-income Housing in partnership with PHAR, the Legal Aid Justice Center, Virginia Organizing Project, Quality Community Council, Virginia Poverty Law Center, ENPHRONT, and the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Speakers in cluded Ed Williams of ENPHRONT, Barbara Sard of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Alex Gulotta of the Legal Aid Justice Center, Joe Szakos of the Virginia Organizing Project. |
 | Participation on City Housing Committees & Task Forces
In August 2006, QCC Vice-Chair Joy Johnson was appointed by the Charlottesville City Council to represent QCC and The Public Housing Association of Residents on the newly formed standing Housing Advisory Committee. (photo by David Blythe) In 2004, QCC Executive Director Karen Waters represented QCC on the City's Housing Policy Task Force. |
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