News & Resources

We are excited to announce the launch of Evictorbook, a web-based tool that provides information about properties, landlords, and the complicated networks of corporate ownership.

This week, Antioch renters won a robust local rent control policy, a testament to the importance of building renter power to stand up against greedy corporate landlords.

Today, Urban Habitat is proud to announce the release of a new report, Antioch CHANGE: A Community Housing Assessment of Needs, Gaps and Equity in Antioch, California, in partnership with First 5 Contra Costa, ECRG, and Healthy and Active Before 5.

The dual public health and economic crises spurred by COVID-19 have created a momentary increase in political will for lasting, safe, and affordable housing solutions for people who are unhoused. But the structural drivers of homelessness existed long before COVID-19, and will persist and even worsen unless local and state leaders act to address the root causes of homelessness.

May 1, 1886, was the date of the first May Day in the United States. According to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), more than 300,000 workers and 13,000 businesses went on strike that day. The demand was an 8-hour day for workers.

California’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) is set to close for applications today. Over half a million renters have applied for rental assistance, but only 1 in 3 have received it, with hundreds of thousands still waiting desperately for their application to be reviewed. 

Urban Habitat and Bay Area Community Land Trust are pleased to release a new report, Advancing Community-Controlled Housing Preservation through the New Bay Area Housing Finance Authority (BAHFA).