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, [...]
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 [...]
Telemundo KSTS-48: Report on renter’s rights during COVID crisis
Public Advocates staff attorney Ruby Acevedo is interviewed as part of Spanish Telemundo TV coverage of the impact of the crisis on renters. The interview was broadcast on the 11pm newscast aired [...]
Covid-19 Federal Protections in Place to Avoid Eviction for Millions in Californians
With rent due for millions of people in California, the patchwork of protections can be confusing. See these overviews of various protections now in place at the federal level, in English and [...]
