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Housing Element Enforcement and Advocacy Campaign Update – December 2021 Over the past two years, Public Advocates and our partners engaged in intensive advocacy to ensure that the Regional [...]

Housing Now! is a broad and diverse coalition made up of more than 150 organizations building a movement in California to make housing affordable and to combat the displacement crisis that [...]

May 18, 2022 – Suzanne Dershowitz, staff attorney at Public Advocates, co-authored an op-ed in CalMatters on the importance of integrating community expertise and equity into local housing [...]

For Immediate Release May 13, 2022 Contact: Will Lowry, wlowry@publicadvocates.org, 415.795.0042 Public Advocates’ Statement on Investments in Affordable Housing in Governor Newsom’s May [...]

April 26, 2022 –  Andrés Ramos is quoted in a report by Karma Dickerson and Jose Fabian on a call by affordable housing advocates for California’s projected $50B budget surplus to be [...]

With the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016, housing advocates in California knew an attack on federal fair housing protections would be coming and they went on the offensive. Sam [...]

Housing Element Advocacy Toolkits Bay Area cities and counties are required to update their local housing action plans – the “Housing Element” – by January 2023.  These plans must identify land [...]

In 2017, among other assaults on the rights of people of color and others,  the Trump administration moved quickly to gut a critical portion of the federal Fair Housing Act. In response, Public [...]

AHJ was formed in 2017 following the 2016 presidential election that put Donald Trump into the White House. The coalition, made up of Public Advocates, PolicyLink, Lawyers’ Committee, the Poverty [...]