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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.

Driving Deeper into the Climate Crisis: Who Gets Priority on Our Streets?
This paper identifies the challenges our public transportation system faces and presents an alternative framework that prioritizes the right to space on our streets for the many, not the few, and for public transit over cars.

The Impact of the Built Environment on Mental Wellness
This paper highlights connections between land use and mental wellness, and strategies to improve the health of our communities.

When Renters Rise, Cities Thrive: A Bay Area Equity Atlas Fact Sheet – Fremont Residents Rising Up
This fact sheet describe the current landscape and highlights anti-displacement strategies being called for by community organizations in Fremont.

When Renters Rise, Cities Thrive: A Bay Area Equity Atlas Fact Sheet – Hayward Residents Rising Up
This fact sheet describe the current landscape and highlights anti-displacement strategies being called for by community organizations in Hayward.

When Renters Rise, Cities Thrive: A Bay Area Equity Atlas Fact Sheet – Union City Residents Rising Up
This fact sheet describe the current landscape and highlights anti-displacement strategies being called for by community organizations in Union City.

Strengthening Communities through Rent Control and Just-Cause Evictions
Urban Habitat studied rent boards and policy outcomes in Berkeley, Santa Monica, and Richmond to assess the effects of rent stabilization programs.