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Towards Housing Justice

Current Organizations, Models & Campaigns working towards Justice and Belonging in Housing

Danièle Fogel

Academic Year 2020-21

Teacher Summer Institute Presenters & Staff

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Hello Housing: Non-Profit Organization Making Home Ownership more accessible to all

What they do:

Home ownership helps families accumulate wealth and be more secure financially and socially

Community buying program: transform abandoned lots into new homes into affordable housing; partnership between nonprofit (Hello Housing), City of Oakland & Alameda County Tax Collector.

As of summer 2020: 24 new single-family homes & 2 properties slated for apartment buildings

East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EBPREC): Building co-ownership models of housing, for and by BIPOC

What they do:

Take land and housing off the regular market to create permanently affordable, community controlled land and housing.
Use a co-op model

That means the residents collectively own and control the developments in which they live, and they share the profits and the benefits
It means land without landlords, redistributing resources, re-imagining collective power

Other Ways People are fighting for housing justice

These fight against a law called the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act that allows landlords to set whatever rent they want when a new tenant moves in

Creating laws that say landlords need a just cause for eviction: that they can't just evict people willy-nilly (Causa Justa : Just Cause)
Community control of land: land trusts, co-ops, collective ownership models (EBPREC; Moms 4 Housing; Sogorea Te Land Trust)
Creating laws against discrimination and for fair tenant screening policy
Organizing & Education: Know your rights trainings (Centro Legal de la Raza)

Active Rent Control Campaigns Led by Tenant Unions Across the Bay

Some Organizations Working working for housing justice

Bay Area

California + National