Our goal is for ALL Californians to have access to healthy, sustainable and affordable housing in neighborhoods of their choosing. We advocate for strong, clear, and enforceable anti-displacement protections, and work to:
Protect tenants from eviction and landlord abuse, and ensure access to housing by:
- Working to ensure fair rents, requiring good cause for eviction, increasing procedural protections for tenants facing eviction, and eliminating incentives for investor speculation
- Combating discrimination in housing
- Creating ways for unhoused individuals to access the support and resources they need to obtain and maintain housing
- Working to end unfair policies that lead to the criminalization of unhoused individuals
Preserve the existing housing stock by:
- Preventing older subsidized units from being converted to market-rate units
- Calling for state subsidies to allow affordable housing operators to reduce rents while maintaining high quality housing
- Strengthening laws that ensure rental units and neighborhoods are healthy and habitable
Promote equitable planning and development by:
- Eliminating local discretion to deny affordable housing projects
- Leveraging private development to promote the creation of units for very low and extremely low-income individuals and families
- Securing funding for deeply affordable housing
- Creating more opportunities for community ownership and control of land and housing; ensuring public land is used for public good, and
- Dismantling structural racism in land use and planning.