AHJ was formed in 2017 following the 2016 presidential election that put Donald Trump into the White House. The coalition, made up of Public Advocates, PolicyLink, Lawyers’ Committee, the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, and Right to the City Alliance, came together to address the nation’s affordable housing and displacement crisis, advance the rights of tenants, respond to harmful public policy actions, and shift the narrative from housing as a commodity to a human right. AHJ’s primary strategy to achieve these goals has been to build and support the infrastructure needed for a powerful, grassroots-led housing justice movement. Since it’s inception, AHJ has developed advocacy and education materials on federal fair housing and housing justice issues that have garnered over a million video views and digital explainers that have been accessed tens of thousands of times. The coalition produced a Housing Justice National Platform as the basis for its work.