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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.
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.
Antioch CHANGE
Antioch’s affordable housing crisis has exacerbated deeply rooted racial and economic inequities and jeopardizes community well-being. Building on decades of resident organizing and advocacy for housing justice, the recommendations presented here reflect resident-supported solutions for increasing safe, healthy, stable, and affordable homes in Antioch.
Glosario Popular
Este Glosario Popular es un documento vivo creado por La Alianza Popular por la Tierra y la Vivienda (PLHA- por sus siglas en inglés – People’s Land and Housing Alliance) para presentar términos y conceptos clave que articulan modelos alternativos de vivienda que centran la atención en las personas, no en las ganancias.
The People’s Glossary
This People’s Glossary is a living document created by the People’s Land and Housing Alliance (PLHA) to introduce key terms and concepts that articulate alternative models of housing that centers people, not profit in our communities. We envision a future where safe, clean, and permanently affordable housing is a human right.
Equity Advocacy Within Government
Government staff, or “insiders,” must work in tandem with folks in the community to build policies and processes that better meet the needs of low-income and/or Black, Indigenous, and other community members of color. Chris Norman and Annie Dobbs-Kramer conducted interviews with government staff across the Bay Area, most of whom are BCLI alumni, to identify best practices for equity advocacy within government. These learnings can inform equity practitioners within government on how to use their positions to advance an equity agenda and create tangible, positive change for historically disenfranchised communities.
Regional Resegregation: Building Power in Bay Area Suburbs
This report builds upon our previous work. It offers insights into the ongoing resegregation of the region and the experiences of community groups organizing low-income suburban populations.
Advancing Community-Controlled Housing Preservation through the New Bay Area Housing Finance Authority
This paper focuses on the importance of affordable housing preservation, especially via community-controlled models, and offers key recommendations to deeply research and develop during the business planning process and then implement through Bay Area Housing Finance Authority’s pilot programs and long-term programming.
Defending Our Homes: Bay Area Tenant Groups Respond to the Social Crisis of COVID-19
This report attempts to capture what tenant organizing groups are seeing and doing on the ground in response to COVID-19. While this is indeed a moment of crisis, it is also an opportunity to create the foundation for a just recovery. All too often, those bearing the brunt of a crisis are left out of the solutions.
Rooted in Home: Community-Based Alternatives to the Bay Area Housing Crisis
This report highlights both responses and long-term solutions to the Bay Area housing crisis—rooted in permanent affordability and democratic community control.