Housing Justice

January 25, 2017 – Public Advocates deputy managing attorney Samuel Tepperman-Gelfant was on KAWL to discuss the affordable housing crisis in the Bay Area. He also shares how community [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2017 Contact: Isabel Alegría, 415-431-7434, ialegria@publicadvocates.org   On Tuesday of this week, Governor Jerry Brown released his state budget proposal [...]

Originally published in December of 2013 See Part 2 of this blog By Richard Marcantonio I’ve been asked more than once why, as a civil rights lawyer, I spend so much time working with community [...]

A ONE-TWO COMBO FOR 6 WINS AND REGIONAL EQUITY By David Zisser Nearly two years of regional grassroots power-building and advocacy, with key victories along the way, culminated in one end-of-year [...]

The Guardian US edition reporter Sam Levin reports on Facebook agreement with local community organizations to commit $20 million to support  affordable housing and other benefits. The article [...]

Queenie Wong of the San Jose Mercury News reports on the announcement by Facebook and community organizations of a ground-breaking agreement. Public Advocates is mentioned in the article as [...]

The Facebook -ETB-East Palo Alto pact will help create affordable homes, protect tenants, prevent displacement and increase access to jobs in the East Palo Alto area.  The Envision Transform [...]

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 [...]