We are a Community Land Trust building power for housing and climate justice in Miami!
PAID OPPORTUNITIES WITH SMASH!
A Miami Free of
CURRENT INITIATIVES
Miami Housing Justice Agenda
There's a way for every Miamian to have a healthy, climate resilient home, but it requires a complete overhaul of our housing system, its values, its policies and its financial investment. Sign the pledge for a Miami where #HousingIsAHumanRight
Affordable Co-op Housing
SMASH also develops and operates affordable housing cooperatives, with rents at $800/mo. Fill out an application here.
Property Insurance and HOAs
Insurance is going crazy in Florida, and low-income Black residents are the ones being hardest hit. Sign the petition to ensure reforms that benefit all of us.
Volunteer Mini-Stipends!
SMASH is looking for volunteers to help keep our house looking shiny and to help run our events! Sign up for one of the daily shifts!
Believe in a just future for Miami
OUR MISSION
SMASH is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit worker-led cooperative Community Land Trust organization. SMASH’s mission is to build community power for housing and climate justice, and their impact on racial, gender and queer equity.
OUR VISION
SMASH has a vision of a Miami free of slumlords and gentrification.
When the history books are written, they will tell of an uprising that happened among Miami’s renter class against the slumlords. They organized tenant unions in every slum building, and then through their collective efforts, including rent-strikes, media blitzes and legal action, forced them to part with their properties and place it in the residents’ control. This happened with building after building, each victory providing momentum for the next, until eventually, the grassroots residents had built enough of a base, and enough assets, to shift the dynamics of power on housing decisions in Miami. Moreover, the financial advantage the movement now possessed allowed them to create America’s first ecosystem of new economy initiatives, with residents living in affordable housing cooperatives and land trusts, working at worker-owned cooperative businesses, and engaging in sustainable and regenerative consumption. This progressed until the system of housing itself was removed entirely from the speculative market and was completely decommodified. In every sense of the word, Miami had made housing a human right.