Affordable Housing

Jorge Morales Almada reports for Univision on the federal housing discrimination lawsuit filed against real estate investor Optimus Properties LLC by Public Advocates and Public Counsel. In [...]

Doug Smith of the Los Angeles Times reports on the filing of a federal housing discrimination lawsuit by tenants in Los Angeles’ Koreatown against real estate investment firm Optimus LCC. [...]

Rampant and ongoing discrimination against tenants in several apartment buildings in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles prompted a major federal lawsuit, Martinez v. Optimus Properties [...]

Sam Levin of The Guardian reports on the filing of a major federal housing discrimination lawsuit by Public Advocates, Public Counsel and co-counsel in Los Angeles. The complaint alleges [...]

Palo Alto Online’s Kate Bradshaw reports on Public Advocates’ and ACLU criticism of Facebook Expansion Studies and the impact the expansion could have on local communities   [...]

June 21, 2011 Mark Green, Chair, and Members ABAG Administrative Committee Adrienne Tissier, Chair, and Members Metropolitan Transportation Commission Dear Chairs and Members: We join several of [...]

Silicon Valley Business Times reporter Nathan Donato-Weinstein reports on the community lawsuit filed by Public Advocates and co-counsel on violation of Surplus Land Act by San Jose.   Read [...]

NBC Bay Area reporter Lisa Fernandez on the expansion of Facebook’s peninsula campus in light of Public Advocates’ and ACLU affordable housing concerns.   Read the article, and [...]

By  Sam Tepperman-Gelfant July 20, 2016 Facebook’s corporate mission is to create community online, but the Menlo Park-based company is not always a good neighbor in the real world. Its [...]

Public Advocates and the ACLU of Northern California submitted these comments on the Facebook Campus Expansion Draft Environmental Impact Report. Public Advocates and the ACLU of Northern [...]