Rising Bay Area rents hit communities of color hardest
February 18, 2019 – Louis Hansen of the Mercury News writes about new patterns of resegregation in the Bay Area. A report by the California ...
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Statement by John Affeldt on Governor Newsom’s State of the State Education Priorities
PRESS STATEMENT February 12, 2019 Contact: Duc Luu, Communications Manager Statement by John Affeldt on Governor Newsom’s State of the State Education Priorities On the occasion ...
Press Release: OAKLAND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS TO SCHOOL DISTRICT: Protect Our Students! Protect Our Schools! Put Oakland flatlands students and families first!
For Immediate Release: Feb. 4, 2019 For more information:Katy Nunez-Adler, mobile: (510) 967-5137; [email protected] Santos, mobile: 510-386-1718; [email protected] OAKLAND GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS TO SCHOOL DISTRICT: Protect ...
Appointments of staff by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon to statewide commissions and committees
January 25, 2019 Dear friends and colleagues, As many of you know, in 2018 Public Advocates announced its expansion into higher education advocacy. This is ...
Envision Transform Build – East Palo Alto (ETB) Coalition and Facebook Agreement
The Facebook—ETB (East Palo Alto) pact will help create affordable homes, protect tenants, prevent displacement and increase access to jobs in the East Palo Alto ...
Martinez v. Optimus Properties LLC
Real estate developer Optimus Properties agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle a lawsuit, brought by Public Advocates, charging widespread housing discrimination. The suit, brought by 15 tenants living in five rent-controlled Koreatown buildings either currently or formerly owned by Optimus Properties, alleged that Optimus targeted Spanish-speaking Latino tenants, tenants with disabilities, and families with children by serving them with dozens of gratuitous and undeserved eviction notices, refusing to make repairs, and verbally attacking their disabilities and national origin in an effort to get them to move out so they could raise the rents.