VOICE’s Organizing History
Affordable Housing:
? Organized with low-income
housing residents to fix 800
fire code violations in
Culmore Apartments and
numerous health and safety
violations in Lafayette/Rt. 1
Apartments in Fairfax Co; to
correct housing code violations and secure fair treatment during redevelopment at the Alexandria Bland Public
Housing Project; and to win $200,000 to restore bus
service to the Arlington Health & Human Service Center
from Columbia Pike.
? Launched a major campaign to hold financial institutions
accountable for foreclosures, predatory lending, and the
broken loan modification system in Prince William County.
Dental Care:
? Secured $9 million in the 2010 VA budget to preserve
access to dental care for low income adults as well as
$300,000 from Alexandria City, Fairfax, and Arlington to
expand low-income adult dental services at the Northern
Virginia Dental Clinic.
Immigration Justice:
? Organized local immigrant residents (Muslim, Latino,
African Christian) to press for timely processing of Federal
immigration applications (citizenship, naturalization, &
asylum) that are backlogged more that 5-9 years and to
press Virginia officials to accept Federal immigration
documents as proof of residency to obtain a driver’s
license.
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