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February 2025: housing justice in a warming world

Each month, we break down our topic into four weekly modules. Catch up on previous editions here.​

This week's module: ACT

• ✅ CONNECT | Conversation prompts to guide your visions of housing justice​
• ✅ LEARN | How does housing intersect with climate justice?​
• ✅ ACT | What activities and actions can we take towards building equitable housing that benefits people and planet?​
• 🎯 REFLECT | Reflections on home (TODAY)

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

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Here's what we'll learn today Reader

Last night at Soapbox Seattle, we did our in-person REFLECT module on housing x climate justice. Dana facilitated a healing circle where we reflected on what home means to us and Anne led a "colors of home" paint activity.

Today, as we wrap up our February housing x climate justice theme in our Changeletter, you'll get to participate in these reflections too no matter where in the world you live!

In our warming and population-growing world, building denser, equitable, just cities is non-negotiable.

However, it's not as easy as saying "okay build more housing!"

Talking/thinking/acting on housing can be really personal and emotional, so I encourage you to commit some time to today's REFLECT module. Bonus if you bring these questions/activities to your next friend hangout!

P.S. if you missed the last 3 Changeletter modules on housing, catch up here.

Upcoming Soapbox events

• IMPORTANT: There is a USA-wide 24h economic blackout THIS FRIDAY (Feb 28). The ask is that you don't spend any money, and if you must, spend it on small businesses. No Venmo, Uber, Amazon, etc. Don't swipe your credit card if you can help it.
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• ** NEW CITY LAUNCH: LA** March 4 in LA: community dinner & joyful climate action party​
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• ​March 4 in Seattle: climate concert & connection | how do we create the economy of the future?​

​Our entire events calendar can be found here. We have weekly events in Seattle and monthly events in NYC with more cities coming soon!

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Your bite-sized action plan Reader

✅ REFLECT on how to align your visions of home with your values

Invitation 1: Do your own mini "colors of home" activity.

Find color options: paints, markers, crayons, etc. and also get a piece of paper for yyour activity.

Picture some of your earliest memories of home, or one of your homes. As you sit in this space, what do you notice around you? Locate something in your home that has a distinctive color that you like. How do you feel in this space? Do you associate this feeling with any particular color?

You are invited to meander along with colors. This can look like a swatch (e.g. distinctive color object on the top, feeling on the bottom), a specific scene, or anything you want.

You can also reflect similarly on:

• your first home when you became an adult,
• a space where you distinctly DON'T feel like home,
• your current home as it looked this morning

✨ This activity was invented by our February resident artist Anne Livingston. Follow her!​

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Invitation 2: Reflect on the following questions, preferably with others you can be vulnerable with:

1. What do you think about when you think about home, individually and in community?
2. What expectations and stressors have been placed upon you around the concept of home?
3. What needs to change for you to align what you want as far as home? (Learning, unlearning, getting involved, etc.)
4. How do you integrate climate justice and solutions into your values and vision of home?

That's it for today, and that's a wrap on our February theme of housing justice in a warming world! If you want some bonus content to peek into what a few of our reflections were last night, I've transcribed some below.

Thank you SO much for keeping up, and I'm excited to see you again next week as we kick off our March theme on the new economy. This will encompass sustainable finance, reparations, solidarity economy, and more!

Love,

Nivi

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Dear Seattle friends: if any of you wrote one of these and you want credit, please let me know so I can make sure we attach your name on it when we make this into an article. Thank you thank you thank you

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(1) Concept of "Home":

When I think of "home," I pause, and struggle to articulate it, or fully define it. But when I sit with that pause, I realize home for me is a feeling, not really a specific place. It's a feeling of belonging and existing as myself, and of feeling like the space or moment I'm in or people I'm with are what makes life so lovely. I feel home with my friends, reminiscing on memories with my family, with the sunlight streaming through my window on a Sunday morning. I feel it in the trees of the Cascades, and the air when I walk out of SeaTac after being away. I feel it in other countries and by myself singing my favorite songs. And I don't know if not feeling connected to a place as home is ok, or if I even want that. Maybe it feels too out of reach"

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(2) Untitled

I enjoy tapping into the wild side

The entire earth is my home

The starry sky like the ceiling that

comforts me at night.

The wind like a caressing connection

to the home we all share.

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I want to see my community outside

or at least to help other communities to

get outside

To get wild.

But I get having a house and all its

amenities,

It's something I should build for

my future family

But it doesn't feel like I

am building it for myself.

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(3) Expectations/stressors?

Paying rent. Most of my life revolves around this. I feel like I can't catch up.