Pillars
Steps maintains five pillars for building communities—affordable housing, economic justice, environmental justice, human rights, and preservation of historical communities.
- Children’s Defense Fund 2007 Report, “America’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline”
This Children's Defense Fund report documents America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, an urgent national crisis at the intersection of poverty and race that puts Black boys at a one in three lifetime risk of going… - House Leaders Call on HUD to Deny MS’s Request to Divert Funds
Letter submitted by Barney Frank and Maxine Waters to Secretary Jackson, urging that he deny Mississippi's request for waiver that would divert funding away from low/mod income housing recovery in favor of large port of… - Increasing the Return: Investing in Mississippi’s Working Families
A report by Enterprise Corporation of the Delta on economic challenges for working families. - Protect East Biloxi From Poor Sewage Treatment
DO YOU FISH, SWIM or BOAT on the Back Bay in Harrison County? The East Biloxi Sewage Plant is currently applying for the renewal of a wastewater treatment permit affecting the Back Bay of Biloxi… - Protect Gulfport from Flooding: Stop the Port Connector Road
MDOT plans to use federal highway money to build a road that will essentially negate Federal Recovery Dollars spent to make the coast safer. The destruction of large areas of wetlands in Gulfport will lead… - Steps Coalition CDBG Report
Steps Coalition releases a presentation that shows how far Mississippi has strayed from Congressional intent to devote at least half the Disaster Recovery funds to primarily benefit lower-income residents. Download the presentation and click to… - Steps People Before Ports Campaign
Help stop the diversion of $600 million away from housing recovery needs