This story is being reproduced for this blog from a brochure WIN published two years ago. It is our home celebrating this victory along the way will ready us for the fight ahead for supportive housing. Ernestine Ballesteros remembers the Great Depression. She was only five years old when her family was evicted from their home. […]
Frustrated with the state of sidewalks in the Bellevue Neighborhood, in 2000 WIN leaders from Covenant Baptist UCC supported by other Ward 8 leaders planned a community walk through with local elected officials. During the walk, WIN leaders identified problem sidewalks, alleyways and crosswalks and got commitments to have them fixed. As a result of […]
Eight years ago, Martin Trimble, then WIN’s lead organizer, challenged Juanita Hutchinson to name the thing that she would change if she had all the power in the world. Access to affordable homes in her Deanwood Heights neighborhood. No question about it. “I grew up in this area, I was born in this area, and I […]
WIN leaders at Dunbar Senior High School were frustrated because they felt the city cared enough to condemn the dilapidated and unsafe track at Dunbar but not enough to fix it. Leaders could not abide it any longer and began to organize, engaging more parents, students, and alumni around their vision. They fought for updated […]