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Resources for Student Leaders

Know Your Rights Presentations Students are entitled to know their rights and advocate for themselves. Public Advocates has supported student power by educating them on ...

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Plan Bay Area

Decades of unjust policy choices have systematically excluded low-income communities of color from opportunity by promoting segregation and disinvestment, while creating sprawl, dependance on cars, and highways that pollute the low-income neighborhoods they cut through. A 2008 California state law, Senate Bill 375, aimed to decrease sprawl, driving, and pollution requires regional agencies to coordinate planning decisions that would bring housing, jobs, and transit closer together through a regional plan known as Plan Bay Area.

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Neighborhood Anti-Displacement

Neighborhood Anti-Displacement and Preservation Protecting low-income communities from displacement and gentrification. Public Advocates fights for equitable land use policies and programs that keep our neighbors ...

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Land Use

Land Use Public land for public good. Land use policy is how jurisdictions, usually cities and counties, decide where we build, how we build, and ...

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Renters’ Rights

Renters’ Rights Ensuring all renters have a stable, healthy, and affordable place to call home. Everyone in our state—the fifth largest global economy—deserves a safe, ...

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