Founders of Public Advocates
In 1971, four young attorneys – Bob Gnaizda, Tony Klein, Sid Wolinsky, and Peter Sitkin – envisioned a law firm that would serve the public interest, not the agendas of deep-pocketed individuals [...]
East 12th Street
In Oakland, Public Advocates has worked with the resident-led East 12th Coalition to ensure that a city-owned site along the shores of Oakland’s Lake Merritt is used for affordable housing, [...]
Why School Funding Will Always Be Imperfect
In 2013, California passed the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), a law that aimed to revolutionize how school districts receive state funding. The Atlantic reports on the concerns of [...]
Controversial Affordable Housing Proposal is Dead
KPFA reports that a state plan to allocate 400 million dollars for affordable housing is now dead, due to its linkage to a controversial proposal by Governor Jerry Brown that would have created [...]
Regional Coalition’s Show of Power Secures Anti-Displacement Win
By David Zisser If it wasn’t clear before, members and allies of the 6 Wins Network, a regional social justice coalition, recently reminded some of the Bay Area’s top decision-makers just [...]
Developing a New State Accountability System
By Liz Guillen and John Affeldt Public Advocates continues to play a key leadership role with the LCFF Equity Coalition as we help shape a new public school accountability system for [...]
We support the EEJ Scenario
More than forty groups have called upon MTC and ABAG to incorporate key elements of the “Equity, Environment and Jobs” Scenario into the final Plan Bay Area. On September 23, 2015 wrote a letter [...]
