Maryland policy advocacy
Working to Keep People Housed in Maryland
Across Maryland, renters struggle to find safe, clean, affordable housing. Currently, landlords and property managers operate within a powerful, often under-regulated system with weak enforcement, loopholes, and structural power imbalances. Economic Action works to provide direct assistance to renters as well as pass legislation in Maryland to expand protections, assistance, and affordability for tenants statewide. This year, we've combined our Fair Housing and Tenant Advocacy programs into one program -- Housing Services, so we'll be able to better coordinate with our Securing Older Adult Resources (SOAR) program and policy work. We have a new Fair Housing Guide for Maryland Landlords. ...
2026 Economic Justice Priorities
Right now, our economy is designed to extract wealth from families and communities and concentrate it in corporate hands. We believe the economy should be shaped by the people, not by a handful of elites. Our 2026 legislative agenda is centered around economic justice, and confronts some of the most detrimental ways corporations, financial actors, and utilities profit by destabilizing Maryland families—and rewrites the rules across debt, housing, energy, and credit in the public interest. Together, let’s build an economy that works for Maryland families, not against them. End Unfair Debt Practices Protect victims of ...
Policy Advocacy
Policy, Legislative Advocacy, and ResearchWe work across Maryland — and at the local, state, and federal levels — to bring people and organizations together to challenge the financial systems that let powerful corporations profit while people of every age, all across the state, are pushed into cycles of hardship.We confront the laws, regulations, debt-collection practices, and housing systems that stack the deck against Marylanders, because we believe power should be in people’s hands, not concentrated among a wealthy few.Together, we uncover systemic issues in our financial system and work to create policies that don’t just put bandaids on problems, but ...