Housing Justice

Everyone deserves a safe place to call home. But across Nevada, families are being pushed to the brink by skyrocketing rents, stagnant wages, and a system that profits from human desperation.

Nevada has one of the most severe affordable housing shortages in the nation. We are short more than 80,000 affordable homes for extremely low-income renters statewide. In Clark County, nearly 80% of low-income families spend more than half their income on rent. In Washoe County, housing prices have doubled in a decade, far outpacing wages, and homelessness is rising among children, seniors, and entire families.

This crisis didn’t happen by accident.

For years, elected officials have prioritized developers and luxury housing while underfunding affordable housing programs. Rents are being driven up by corporate landlords and hedge funds who buy up homes and evict tenants for profit. Meanwhile, policies like anti-camping ordinances criminalize homelessness instead of addressing its root causes.

And once again, it’s Black, Brown, Indigenous, undocumented, and working-class communities who are hurt the most. The same communities historically denied mortgages and redlined out of opportunity now face eviction, displacement, and exploitation in the very neighborhoods they’ve built.

Faith calls us to do better.

We are organizing to:

• Expand Nevada’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund and push for real investment in permanent, deeply affordable homes
  
  
• Protect renters from price gouging, discrimination, and unjust evictions
  
  
• Block harmful policies that punish poverty — like anti-camping bans
  
  
• Win policies that make housing accessible for people who were formerly incarcerated or unhoused
  

Housing is not a commodity. It’s a human right. And it’s time to build a Nevada where no one is left behind because of their income, background, or zip code.

This is a spiritual fight. This is about dignity, justice, and community.