Housing Justice

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release July 27, 2017   CONTACT: Isabel Alegría, 510- 541-5428,  ialegria@publicadvocates.org or David Zisser, 415-828-8722, dzisser@publicadvocates.org   [...]

San Jose’s findings on displacement from its Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice: Includes and analyzes maps on the risk of displacement produced by UC Berkeley’s Urban Displacement [...]

June 27, 2017 By David Zisser Fair housing and anti-displacement advocates won an important victory on April 25th in San Jose that may have repercussions at the regional, state, and even national [...]

Raw Story and Alex Kotch take a close look at Secretary Ben Carson’s recent nationwide listening tour. Alex details the lengths to which Secretary Carson has gone to avoid meaningful public [...]

April 5, 2017 – Jason Ruiz of the Long Beach Post reports on the complaint filed by Public Advocates against the Long Beach Unified School District. The complaint states that the district [...]

April 4, 2017 – Reporter Kriston Capps of CITYLAB from the Atlantic interviews Guillermo Mayer about CarsonWatch.org, the new effort to keep tabs on HUD policies under Trump and HUD Secty. [...]

March 31, 2017 – Sam Felsing of The Oakland Conduit reports on the East Bay Residents for Responsible Development (EBRRD) poll that evaluated the top concerns of Oakland residents. They [...]

Fair housing law prohibits discrimination in housing on the basis of race, national origin, disability status, and other protected characteristics. The 1968 Fair Housing Act also includes a [...]

September 30, 2018: AB 686 has been signed by Governor Brown and will become law on January 1, 2019! Thank you Governor Brown and Assemblymember Miguel Santiago for supporting this visionary fair [...]

February 7, 2017 – Cecily O’Connor, of the Bay Area Monitor, describes the impact that Plan Bay Area will have on our region. Plan Bay Area will decide how $300 billion in [...]