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A new tool to preserve affordable housing
We are excited to share with you a new resource to help prevent displacement and housing insecurity in the Bay Area and beyond – “Building a Community-Centered Housing Preservation Ecosystem.”
It’s on! A new initiative for housing justice across the Bay Area
Together with many of our community partners, Urban Habitat is co-creating a Bay Area where everyone has a safe place to call home no matter what we look like or how much we earn.
Vallejo housing advocates call for better protections, better plans
Times~Herald
Cristal Gallegos, an organizer with the Vallejo Housing Justice Coalition, said local legal services are “inundated” and often unable to provide the kind of help evicted families need. “The community lives in fear of management, knowing that there are no anti-harassment ordinances in place,” she said.
Building a Community-Centered Housing Preservation Ecosystem
This paper outlines the elements needed to sustain a community-centered housing preservation ecosystem that stems the tide of displacement. It consists of an outline of the ecosystem’s elements and a worksheet practitioners can use to identify strengths to build upon.
How many of your elected officials are landlords?
Tenant organizers have long known that landlord lobby groups, such as the California Apartment Association, have outsized influence on our political landscape. Our new research shows that landlords are grossly overrepresented among Bay Area policymakers.
Let’s move bold housing solutions at the local level!
On September 13th, the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority’s (BAHFA) Oversight Committee will meet to discuss the proposed 2024 regional housing bond measure and their work with jurisdictions in preparation for the bond funds.
A Framework for Counties and Cities to Develop High-Impact and Equitable Housing Bond Expenditure Plans
This framework was developed with a diverse group of housing organizations across the Bay Area and should be applied to how counties and cities create their expenditure plans for the $10 billion bond to address the housing crisis.
Apply to join the 2024 BCLI Cohort
Urban Habitat’s Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI) trains and supports leaders from low-income communities of color to influence housing, transportation, and land use policies as decision makers. Apply to join the 2024 BCLI Cohort!
Billions for affordable housing? Voters may get chance to weigh in
Oaklandside
“The additional funds from a regional housing bond will allow us to have an exponential impact on providing homes for the unhoused and affordable housing for working families,” – Urban Habitat’s Ellen Wu, in Oaklandside.
CAMBIO en Antioch
La crisis de vivienda económica de Antioch ha exacerbado las desigualdades raciales y económicas profundamente arraigadas y pone en peligro el bienestar de la comunidad. Basadas en décadas de organización de residentes y activismo por la justicia de vivienda, las recomendaciones presentadas aquí reflejan soluciones apoyadas por los residentes para aumentar las viviendas seguras, saludables, estables y económicas en Antioch.