Instead of focusing mainly on ways to help low- and middle-class people buy affordable housing, grant makers are paying for community organizing and advocacy designed to protect renters.
Regans, an artist-in-residence for the nonprofit legal-aid organization Community Justice Project, has now turned tenants testimonies into an audio/visual installation called A Little More Time to raise awareness about housing insecurity in Miami-Dade.
The nine-minute video project includes the words of five tenants who were fighting eviction cases but who ultimately were removed from their homes. To commemorate International Workers Day, it will debut this coming Saturday, May 1, at the Miami Workers Center, 720 NW 55th St., from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Over much of the past year, Community Justice Project lawyers defending renters against evictions have pored over hundreds of such testimonies, and housing organizers with the Miami Workers Center have knocked on doors to offer support to people at risk of losing their homes.