For more than a decade, Public Advocates has worked in partnership with community groups in Oakland to win investment and development that meets the needs of the city’s low-income residents and workers. The goal is to create more homes that families can afford, better jobs for local residents, protections for tenants, and more frequent and affordable bus service that gets people where they need to go.
In the Bay Area, countywide transportation agencies wield significant power over the use of billions of dollars in transportation funding. These “Congestion Management Agencies,” or ...
Background The basic competitive unit of the global economy is not the city, but the metropolitan region. Our labor and housing markets, transportation systems, and ...
In 2012, Public Advocates successfully negotiated with the Menlo Park City Council to meet the city’s share of the region’s affordable housing needs, extending the opportunities that come from living in a healthy neighborhood with good jobs and schools to the city’s disenfranchised lower-wage workforce. The agreement paves the way for over 1,000 new affordable homes in this Silicon Valley community.
Public Advocates and our partners reached a settlement in a class action civil rights lawsuit against the City of Antioch for engaging in a harassment campaign against Black Section 8 residents. In the settlement, the City agreed that the Antioch Police Department would stop targeting Black Section 8 residents, except when race is used to identify a specific suspect in a crime.
In a major victory for affordable housing, Public Advocates and our co-counsels won a lawsuit against the City of Pleasanton for illegally preventing affordable housing from being built. The case was pivotal in advancing racial, class, and environmental equity through challenging exclusionary housing policies.
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