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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