Public Advocates E-Newsletter Archive
Every month, Public Advocates distributes its E-Newsletter to subscribers. The Newsletter contains updates of our work in education, housing, climate justice and transportation justice as well as [...]
Every month, Public Advocates distributes its E-Newsletter to subscribers. The Newsletter contains updates of our work in education, housing, climate justice and transportation justice as well as [...]
By David Zisser If it wasn’t clear before, members and allies of the 6 Wins Network, a regional social justice coalition, recently reminded some of the Bay Area’s top decision-makers just [...]
Expedited Affordable Housing Development: What Low-Income Communities Really Need July 26, 2016 By Amy Schur, ACCE; Sam Tepperman-Gelfant and Michelle Pariset, Public Advocates and Aimee Inglis, [...]
June 21, 2011 Mark Green, Chair, and Members ABAG Administrative Committee Adrienne Tissier, Chair, and Members Metropolitan Transportation Commission Dear Chairs and Members: We join several of [...]
More than forty groups have called upon MTC and ABAG to incorporate key elements of the “Equity, Environment and Jobs” Scenario into the final Plan Bay Area. On September 23, 2015 wrote a letter [...]
NBC Bay Area reporter Lisa Fernandez on the expansion of Facebook’s peninsula campus in light of Public Advocates’ and ACLU affordable housing concerns. Read the article, and [...]
As the company prepares to bring thousands of new workers to its Menlo Park campus, the Guardian’s Sam Levin reports that advocates say Facebook must do more to help lower-income local [...]
By Sam Tepperman-Gelfant July 20, 2016 Facebook’s corporate mission is to create community online, but the Menlo Park-based company is not always a good neighbor in the real world. Its [...]
Throughout California, local organizations and coalitions are fighting for Investment Without Displacement rather than gentrification and displacement. Public Advocates co-convenes a network of [...]
Public Advocates was lead counsel (with the California Affordable Housing Law Project) in an affordable housing suit against the City of Pleasanton. Our clients are Urban Habitat, an [...]