Housing Justice

The Oakland City Council’s Community & Economic Development Committee is voting on what to do with unused public land — a decision that will have a profound impact on the housing crisis in [...]

March 23, 2018 – Zelda Bronstein of the Daily Berkeley Planet writes about the BART board’s vote of conditional support for SB 827. Senior Staff Attorney David Zisser is mentioned in [...]

March 1, 2018 – WDET interviewed Liz Ryan Murray, Project Director of CarsonWatch. The conversation focused on revelations that HUD spent $31,000 on a luxury dining table set in the midst [...]

February 23, 2018 – Ali Tadayon of the East Bay Times writes about the battle in Oakland over the use of public land. Public Advocates is calling for unused public land to be developed into [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 14, 2018   Residents Deliver Valentine’s Day Proposal to City Council: Use Oakland’s Public Land for Public Good   Contact: Vanessa Riles, East 12th Coalition, [...]

MEDIA ADVISORY February 13, 2018 On Valentine’s Day, residents will demand that the City Council show its love for Oakland by adopting a People’s Proposal for Public Land WHAT: On February [...]

February 8, 2018 – Scott Thomas Anderson of the Sacramento News Review writes about Wall Street’s growing influence as a landlord in Sacramento. He mentions that a company like [...]

February 7, 2018 – Adam Rogers of WIRED writes about the fierce debate over SB 827 in California. The bill, sponsored by Senator Scott Wiener, would put some metropolitan zoning policy that [...]

January 23, 2018 – Negin Owliaei of Truthout covers Wall Street’s growing influence in the rental marketplace. The article mentions a report coauthored by Public Advocates, ACCE, and [...]

January 20, 2018 – The Intercept’s Rebecca Burns covers Wall Street’s growing influence in the rental marketplace. The article mentions a report coauthored by Public Advocates, [...]