PUSH Louisville

PUSH Louisville is a union of working-class tenants organizing to develop and maintain community-controlled affordable housing in Louisville, KY. 

Backstory: Working-class people from all over Louisville, KY, came together to pass the Anti-Displacement Ordinance (ADO), the first of its kind in the US South. This pioneering legislation was written by Black working-class tenants and has set a new international precedence on how cities assess and measure displacement risk when deciding what development projects to support with public resources. From this powerful campaign, a North Star and collective vision grew! Tenants and residents of working-class communities saw the critical need for community-controlled permanently affordable housing. Louisville Tenants Union Co-founder and ADO Campaign Lead, Jessica Bellamy, worked with core campaign members to form People United for Social Housing Louisville (PUSH Louisville) to enact the growing vision of the campaign.