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Vallejo Housing Justice Coalition and elected officials discuss how housing policy reform could address decades of inequality in Vallejo, while presenting new research into conditions faced by Vallejo renters.

Redwood City residents and leaders with Faith in Action Bay Area are campaigning to pass a tenant protection ordinance in the city. A new report from Urban Habitat lays out how rents have skyrocketed in the city in recent years.

Conversations on housing costs often focus on zoning rules. But two new studies say declining affordability is due far more to rising income inequality than short supply.

Urban Habitat, a nonprofit organization that helps advance equitable policies for low-income Bay Area people of color, released a 44-page report and supporting materials last week that outline a framework to protect and provide housing for farmworkers.

A new report finds that farmworkers in San Mateo County face major barriers when it comes to housing, an issue that’s come into focus after the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay in 2023. KQED’s Sara Hossaini reports.

Director of Housing Justice Chris Schildt describes findings from our recent report on how the government’s leading program for funding affordable housing is enriching corporate landlords while making life hell for struggling tenants in Antioch and beyond.

Director of Housing Justice Chris Schildt and Rising Juntos resident leader Teresa Lua talk about our new report, The Failure of For-Profit Affordable Housing – And How Tenants Are Organizing for Change, and how renters organized to pass rent control in Antioch.

The voice of Cristal Gallegos, senior organizer for the Vallejo Housing Justice Coalition, fills with pain as she speaks about the people she works with…Gallegos is deeply skeptical that a billionaire-backed company like California Forever will do anything but worsen the suffering of underserved communities.

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.