Cynthia Johnson, an adjunct professor at Essex Community College and victim of the current housing crisis, will announce her independent run for New Jersey’s 10^th Congressional District at a Press Conference on Thursday, September 8 at 6 PM in East Orange, New Jersey.

 Johnson has chosen Norman Towers in East Orange, whose corporate owners she has filed a suit against, to highlight the housing crisis facing poor and working class people. The US census Bureau is predicting 3.8 million tenants are likely to be evicted in September and October alone, surpassing the atrocious number of 3.6 million for ALL of 2018. On top of this, 8.6 million more tenants are behind on their rent and will soon face eviction.

At the same time buying a home is becoming out of reach for millions of others as private equity vultures swoop in, with New Jersey’s 10^th Congressional District being a leading target. A recent report by Rutgers University showed that over the last three years half of Newark’s homes have been scooped up by corporate buyers, the highest in the country.

 “New Jersey,” Johnson emphasizes, “is in the eye of this eviction storm but my Democratic and Republican opponents offer no protection from the ravages of this capitalist-made calamity.”  Johnson, in contrast to her opponents, is fighting for safe and affordable housing for all and is putting the issue at the center of her independent run for Congress. The Johnson campaign demands housing, along with good jobs, free health care, free college, free transportation, and clean energy for ALL,  financed through ending the war machine and making the billionaires pay.