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HOPE IS AN ACT OF DEFIANCE. DEFY WITH US.
Crossing Party Lines (CPL) wants to hear your story of how you (or someone you know) chose / choose hope in your own life. Maybe you made a friend out of a bully, maybe your dad chose to be accountable when there was an easy way out for him to play the blame-game, maybe your mother spoke up for a neighbor who looked different than everyone else in the community, or maybe your friend reached out to you when things were too fraught between you.
Let's celebrate the unsung choices and acts of hope in everyday life made by ordinary people.
Interested? Email us at VMT@CrossingPartyLines.com with the subject “CHOOSE HOPE” and we will send you recording instructions and/or help you craft your story. .
Look inside you and around you for goodness. Choose Hope. Share Hope. Be Hope.
LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS/INTERNS FOR CROSSING PARTY LINES VISUAL MEDIA TEAM
Do you want to change the way America does politics? Crossing Party Lines (CPL) is a national nonprofit that facilitates conversations among people across the political divide. We have recently established our new Visual Media Department in Long Island and are looking for interns/volunteers for a variety of tasks including but not limited to Video Editing, Content Creation, Social Media posting & promotion. You will be part of a talented and inspired team in a hybrid work model (working on-site at our Bay Shore office + remote work) where you will participate in creative visual storytelling while doing the most important work of our times - promoting civic harmony and reducing toxic polarization. Interested? Email us at VMT@CrossingPartyLines.com with the subject “CPL VMT”
Our Next Discussion with Crossing Party Lines:
Affordable Housing: What’s preventing it?
TUE, JUN 20 · 7:00 PM EDT
Space is limited. Please RSVP HERE.
One of the hallmarks of “adulting” in America is to move out of one’s parents’ house and have one’s own space. However, too often it can be extremely difficult because of a lack of affordable housing. Many young Americans are having to make a choice between not having their own place and moving far away from their families in order to find something affordable. Most Americans couldn’t afford to purchase their own home based on current prices. Nationally, a single-family home now costs a record 5.3 times more than the median household's income - double what is considered affordable, and the typical rental is almost $2,000 a month.
Those of us living on Long Island can especially relate to this problem. Nassau and Suffolk Counties rank among the TOP 10 LEAST affordable metropolitan areas in the country and the rent-to-income ratio for NY in 2022 was 68.5 percent.
Join our discussion as we explore this issue and questions such as:
- Have you or someone you know ever had to choose between having a home & being close to your family?
- What stands in the way of Affordable Housing?
- What roles do, or should, local or state level zoning codes play in making housing available?
- Did you agree/disagree with Gov. Hochul’s NY affordable housing Act?
- Terms like NIMBY (Not In My Backyard), YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) and PHIMBY (Public Housing In My Backyard) are often used in these discussions - do you relate to them and why?
- Is the cost of housing driving up homelessness?
- What is the best way to resolve this problem?
Join our FIFTH in-person discussion at our NEW Long Island chapter and have a voice in our local (and national) conversation! If you are liberal, come & bring a conservative friend. If you are a conservative, bring a liberal friend. If you have no friends across party lines, then you know how entrenched the problem is, come so we can solve it together! Help us rebuild a culture where all views are welcomed, appreciated, and heard.
Please do your best to arrive 5-10 minutes before the meeting so we can get to know each other before we start the discussion.
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