Housing Justice

January 20, 2018 – Boingboing covers Wall Street’s growing influence in the rental marketplace. The blog mentions a Public Advocates report that exposes how Wall Street uses evictions, high [...]

January 18, 2018 – CBS 13 Sacramento covers Wall Street’s growing influence in the rental marketplace. The story mentions a Public Advocates report that exposes how Wall Street uses [...]

Click here for a PDF of the report co-authored by Public Advocates, ACCE, and Americans for Financial Reform

For Immediate Release January 5, 2018 Civil Rights, Housing, and Community Development Organizations Call on HUD to Maintain a Critical Fair Housing Tool and Not to Roll Back the Promise of the [...]

December 7, 2017 – Senior Staff Attorney David Zisser wrote an opinion piece for Shelterforce on the importance of recognzing tenants’ rights as civil rights. “Everyone deserves [...]

November 10, 2017 – Angela Glover Blackwell, CEO of PolicyLink, writes about the displacement and eviction crisis faced by low-income communities and people of color. The article mentions [...]

Public Advocates attorney Anne Bellows and Faith in Action Bay Area Executive Director Lorena Melgarejo speak out in San Mateo Daily Journal OpEd “Renters’ Rights are Civil [...]

October 9, 2017 – An op-ed in The San Francisco Examiner does a wrap-up on the many housing bills signed this year. Public Advocates is mentioned: We should remember that many of these [...]

August 28, 2017 – Governor Jerry Brown needs to show that he is serious about solving the housing crisis. Unfortunately, with just days left in the legislative session, Brown has not yet [...]

August 22, 2017 – Jean Tepperman of Oakland Magazine writes about the recent victory by community activists to incorporate equity guidelines in Plan Bay Area. It was a stunning turnaround, [...]