OFFICIALS WITHIN OUR GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM WILL DEMONSTRATE THEIR COMMITMENT TO FIGHTING FOR HOUSING FOR ALL BY:​

Understanding that housing is a human right - as opposed to a commodity - and taking proactive steps to end the homelessness crisis​

Promoting the building of wealth and assets  for communities of color through homeownership, community-led innovation, and security​

Empowering folks affected by evictions, homelessness, and foreclosures to participate in local, state, and federal decisions affecting their lives​

Pursuing policies that protect tenants, prevent evictions, preserve affordable housing and construct affordable housing to meet the community’s needs 

​Centering the needs of the unhoused, unstably housed, and those disproportionately impacted by housing costs when making decisions around homelessness and housing policy​

Decriminalizing homelessness and recognizing that people need housing first before any other struggles can be addressed

Housing is a Human Right

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Environmental (IN)justice in Sacramento
Environment, Housing, Health
Environmental (IN)justice in Sacramento
Environment, Housing, Health

In our last post we discussed what defines environmental justice. This week we’re going to talk about environmental injustice and how it manifests. We’re looking into the impact of these injustices on our most marginalized community members, and more specifically, our unhoused neighbors. 

Environment, Housing, Health
Spotlight: Tamika L'Ecluse & the Sac Community Land Trust!
Housing, Environment, Economic
Spotlight: Tamika L'Ecluse & the Sac Community Land Trust!
Housing, Environment, Economic

In August of 2023, Tamika L'Ecluse was hired as the Sacramento Community Land Trust's (SCLT) first Executive Director! Tamika is long-time community advocate who is dedicated to supporting and empowering our most disenfranchised community members.

Housing, Environment, Economic
Embracing Our Neighbors With Compassion
BoS, Housing, city council
Embracing Our Neighbors With Compassion
BoS, Housing, city council

This piece is centered around the #ThisClose2Unhoused Campaign, led by Public Health Advocates (PHA), which is working to promote compassion and compassionate policy solutions for our unhoused neighbors in California.

BoS, Housing, city council
The Constant Housing Struggle: Andi & Dylan Edition
Housing
The Constant Housing Struggle: Andi & Dylan Edition
Housing

This week we're continuing our exploration of the ways in which renter's are being disenfranchised and exploited by landlords in the Sacramento area through a conversation with SJPC's Program Manager, Andi Bianchi, and his partner Dylan Hoy-Bianchi.

Housing
Measure U - important recs ignored
Housing, city council, Budget, BoS
Measure U - important recs ignored
Housing, city council, Budget, BoS

The Measure U Advisory Committee is the oversight body for the 1cent sales & use tax levied on all purchases related to the City of Sacramento.

The funds generated from this tax are supposed to be used to “restore essential City services that had been cut or scaled back since 2008, including those provided by Sacramento fire, police, parks and libraries.”

Housing, city council, Budget, BoS
Hey Sac County - stop housing our foster youth in a jail
Housing, Budget
Hey Sac County - stop housing our foster youth in a jail
Housing, Budget

This Committee exists as a workgroup of Sacramento County's Mental Health Board, and is looking at mistreatment of youth within Sacramento County. This workgroup was formed in response to an uptick in the number of youth who are unhoused & youth that need mental health services to take on the role of researching these issues and reporting back to the full MHB with policy recommendations.

Housing, Budget
The Closing of Financially Troubled Sacramento Housing Nonprofit and the Death of Fair Housing
Housing, Social Justice Culture, BoS, Kennedy, Serna, Desmond, Hume, Budget, Transparency
The Closing of Financially Troubled Sacramento Housing Nonprofit and the Death of Fair Housing
Housing, Social Justice Culture, BoS, Kennedy, Serna, Desmond, Hume, Budget, Transparency

At the March 28th Sacramento County Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting, the Board approved $1.7 million to pay property owners back rent and to repair damage toward Sacramento Self Help Housing (SSHH) homes under county contract (item 47).

Housing, Social Justice Culture, BoS, Kennedy, Serna, Desmond, Hume, Budget, Transparency
The Siting Plan, it was nice(?) knowin' ya
Ashby, Steinberg, Housing, Valenzuela, city council
The Siting Plan, it was nice(?) knowin' ya
Ashby, Steinberg, Housing, Valenzuela, city council

The City of Sacramento seems to have seen the writing on the wall, and has decided to officially let the Comprehensive Siting Plan To Address Homelessness, which they passed last year, die.

Ashby, Steinberg, Housing, Valenzuela, city council