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Matt Levin of CalMatters and Liam Dillon of the Los Angeles Times, co-host Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast. Featured are Michelle Pariset of Public Advocates and Assemblyman [...]

November 8, 2018 – Liam Dillon of the Los Angeles Times writes about next steps for tenant advocates after Proposition 10 failed to pass. Proposition 10 would have repealed Costa-Hawkins, a [...]

In his OpEd featured in EdSource, Public Advocates’ John Affeldt calls on California’s next governor to take bold steps to address the massive educational equity gap threatening the [...]

Tony Bizjak reports for the Sacramento Bee that the city is coming closer to passing rent control with competing proposals. Public Advocates’ Michelle Pariset is quoted. Sacramento [...]

Statement of John Affeldt, Public Advocates Managing Attorney & Education Program Director on Publication of Getting Down to Facts II Studies regarding California Public Schools We welcome [...]

EdSource’s John Fensterwald reports on the findings of Public Advocates’ survey of charter schools in California released August 1st. The report reveals systemic failure by charter [...]

Capital Radio show Insight with Beth Ruyak takes a look at rent control in Sacramento. During the program, Public Advocates’ Michelle Pariset comments on the effort to pass rent control in [...]

EdSource’s John Fensterwald reports on the inclusion in the state budget  of $13.1 million to support community engagement with the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). This is the 2013 [...]

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 [...]

This is a letter written by Public Advocates to L.A. County Office of Education regarding Pomona Unified School District’s LCAP. PA Letter to LACOE regarding Pomona USD