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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

January 16, 2018 – John Fensterwald of EdSource writes about recent developments regarding the state’s plan to comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Public [...]

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, 28, 2017 – Joyce Tsai of the East Bay Express writes about the shift away from traditional textbooks to online tools happening in Oakland classrooms. Managing Attorney John [...]

Ali Tadayon of the East Bay Times reports on the Akonadi Foundation’s grant awards to 15 social justice groups in the Bay Area. Public Advocates is among those granted funds under the Arc [...]

Staff of the Long Beach Press Telegram report on 2017 in the Long Beach schools, including Public Advocates challenge to the LBUSD’s spending of $40 million on high need students. In [...]

December 11, 2017 – The San Diego Union Tribune Editorial Board wrote about making changes to California’s education funding law, the Local Control Funding Formula. The op-ed mentions [...]

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 [...]