Housing Element Enforcement and Advocacy – Campaign Update – December 2021
Housing Element Enforcement and Advocacy Campaign Update – December 2021 Over the past two years, Public Advocates and our partners engaged in intensive advocacy to ensure that the Regional [...]
Housing Element Advocacy Toolkits
Housing Element Advocacy Toolkits Bay Area cities and counties are required to update their local housing action plans – the “Housing Element” – by January 2023. These plans must identify land [...]
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, [...]
Sacramento Bee: Activists criticize eviction of midtown Sacramento renters in the middle of a pandemic
November 17, 2020 – Theresa Clift of the Sacramento Bee reports on protests over the eviction of renters in midtown Sacramento in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. Public [...]
SF Business Times: Bay Area counties with more jobs would have to build more homes under housing plan
Oct. 19, 2020 – San Francisco Business Times reporter Laura Waxmann reports on a decision by the Executive Board of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) which is considering a [...]
NPR: California OKs Extension Of COVID-19 Moratorium On Evictions
NPR reporter Scott Neuman on California’s extension of Covid-19 moratorium on evictions, quoting Sam Tepperman-Gelfant on concerns remaining among advocates and communities about [...]
