Spanish language version of the AB 686 Bill Fact Sheet (the CA Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Bill)
Click here to read the fact sheet.
Click here to read the fact sheet.
Fair housing law prohibits discrimination in housing on the basis of race, national origin, disability status, and other protected characteristics. The 1968 Fair Housing Act also includes a [...]
September 30, 2018: AB 686 has been signed by Governor Brown and will become law on January 1, 2019! Thank you Governor Brown and Assemblymember Miguel Santiago for supporting this visionary fair [...]
January 25, 2017 – Public Advocates deputy managing attorney Samuel Tepperman-Gelfant was on KAWL to discuss the affordable housing crisis in the Bay Area. He also shares how community [...]
The Guardian US edition reporter Sam Levin reports on Facebook agreement with local community organizations to commit $20 million to support affordable housing and other benefits. The article [...]
Queenie Wong of the San Jose Mercury News reports on the announcement by Facebook and community organizations of a ground-breaking agreement. Public Advocates is mentioned in the article as [...]
Rampant and ongoing discrimination against tenants in several apartment buildings in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles prompted a major federal lawsuit, Martinez v. Optimus Properties [...]
KPFA reports that a state plan to allocate 400 million dollars for affordable housing is now dead, due to its linkage to a controversial proposal by Governor Jerry Brown that would have created [...]
Silicon Valley Business Times reporter Nathan Donato-Weinstein reports on the community lawsuit filed by Public Advocates and co-counsel on violation of Surplus Land Act by San Jose. Read [...]
San Jose Mercury News reporter Ramona Giwargis writes that two struggling renters and a pair of advocacy groups joined in filing a lawsuit Thursday against San Jose claiming a recent city [...]