Housing

Get yr "SAS Facts"! Based on the experiences of LGBTQQ youth of color, this ‘Know Your Rights’ video covers not only street encounters and warrants, but also sexual harassment by police, inappropriate searches of transgender and gender non-conforming youth, profiling for prostitution-related and other “quality of life” offenses, as well as covering new ‘Trans patrol guide’ policies.

A Global Action Project, Community Media in Action Production, created in partnership with Streetwise and Safe.

Using the form of The Christmas Carol and The Wiz, this film weaves together the past, present and future of LGBTQ homelessness in New York City, focusing on the intersection of housing, community and self-image. Four characters, each dealing with a different housing struggle, are visited by the spirit of queer history who takes them to three moments in the past. The story explores the relationships between our personal histories, the history of homelessness and the history of LGBTQ resistance, activism and creativity in responding to housing needs.

A docu-narrative that explores the struggle of working class Chinese immigrants in the face of escalating landlord harassment and abuse. Through tenants stories, history and archival footage, youth producers unveil the power of tenants fighting back against gentrification. In English and Mandarin.

For more information contact:

CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communitites
www.caaav.org

A public service announcement focusing on homelessness among LGBTQ youth.

The Youth Leadership Project of CAAAV is organizing for justice and community healing in the Bronx.