Investment Without Displacement

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 [...]

Expedited Affordable Housing Development: What Low-Income Communities Really Need July 26, 2016 By Amy Schur, ACCE; Sam Tepperman-Gelfant and Michelle Pariset, Public Advocates and Aimee Inglis, [...]

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 [...]

Throughout California, local organizations and coalitions are fighting for Investment Without Displacement rather than gentrification and displacement. Public Advocates co-convenes a network of [...]

Background  Public Advocates is one of the creators and leading members of the 6 Wins for Social Equity Network, a bold group of strategic allies from social justice, faith, public health and [...]