Resources

May 18, 2022 – Suzanne Dershowitz, staff attorney at Public Advocates, co-authored an op-ed in CalMatters on the importance of integrating community expertise and equity into local housing [...]

May 12, 2022 – Erin Apte, senior legislative counsel for Public Advocates, was quoted in an article in EdSource about a $3 billion Community Schools program that stresses building [...]

For Immediate Release May 13, 2022 Contact: Will Lowry, wlowry@publicadvocates.org, 415.795.0042 Public Advocates’ Statement on Investments in Affordable Housing in Governor Newsom’s May [...]

For Immediate Release May 13, 2022 Contact: Will Lowry, wlowry@publicadvocates.org, 415.795.0042 Statement on Education Funding in Governor Newsom’s May Revise Statement on K-12 Budget: We [...]

Public Advocates is excited to have recently co-sponsored AB 2710, authored by Assemblymember Ash Kalra. On April 27, 2022 the hearing for The Stable Homes Act was canceled. If enacted, the bill [...]

May 9, 2022 – Public Advocates’ research and opinion was featured in an article in Higger Ed Dive about remedial education at community colleges: “A 2020 study by the California [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 4, 2022 Contact: Will Lowry, wlowry@publicadvocates.org, 415.795.0042 Statement by Public Advocates on Draft SCOTUS Opinion Overturning Roe v. Wade Public Advocates [...]

May 3, 2022 – Jetaun Stevens, senior staff attorney with Public Advocates was quoted in The Black Chronicle in a story about California’s community colleges still devoting substantial [...]

April 29, 2022 – John Affeldt, managing attorney with Public Advocates, was quoted in EdSource in a story about California giving schools billions of dollars more in unrestricted funding.  [...]