EBHO urges all members, friends and allies to take action.
The state budget has passed and the future of redevelopment is uncertain, but you can still speak out.
- Download a sample letter, reminding your legislator to protect funding for homes for those Californians most in need.
- Download a letter for affordable housing residents to thank Assemblymember Nancy Skinner for her commitment to affordable housing. Download in English or Chinese.
- Contact your legislator - click here for contact information.
See a slideshow of residents: "Bringing it Home: Why Redevelopment Funds Matter"
Protect Funds for Affordable Housing! Don’t Increase Homelessness in California!
Residents from Satellite Housing show up in force at the February 15 rally.
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Hundres of people gathered in Sacramento on February 15 and May 24 to speak out for affordable housing. Click here to read all about it and see photos.
Take Action TODAY to
protect affordable housing and vital services!
- Call your state senator and state assemblymembers today using the contact links below – ask them to continue fighting for affordable housing.
- Spread the word to your constituencies and communities and ask them to speak out.
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- Redevelopment is one of the largest funding sources of affordable housing production, which stabilizes families and creates jobs. 20% of property taxes generated from redevelopment activities must be spent on affordable housing. Since 1999, over 166,000 families have found housing with assistance from redevelopment agencies. Since 1993, redevelopment has financed over 98,000 units of housing.
- California’s most vulnerable families will suffer from the elimination of funding for affordable housing, which comes at the same time as other drastic cuts to health and human services. With no identified replacement for affordable housing funds, we will exacerbate the already severe affordable housing crisis.
- Public investment through redevelopment encourages economic development in our cities and counties. Redevelopment activities generate more than $2 billion in state and local taxes and support 304,000 jobs statewide annually.
- Eliminating redevelopment threatens
environmentally sustainable growth. Communities use redevelopment to
clean up brownfield sites and develop in existing communities rather than
in farmland and open space.
For more talking points and information, see:
• Housing California
• Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California – Contact Gabriella Chiarenza, Policy Associate, at Gabriella@nonprofithousing.org.
• California Redevelopment Association
CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATORS
Don't know your district? Click here to find out which senator and assemblymember represents your home and workplace.
State Senate
Ellen Corbett - (Dist. 10: San Leandro, Fremont, Union City, Newark, Hayward, Pleasanton)
Loni Hancock(Dist. 9: Berkeley, El Cerrito, Richmond, Oakland)
Mark Desaulnier(Dist. 7: Antioch, Concord, Martinez, Walnut Creek, Pittsburg)
State Assembly
Susan Bonilla(Dist. 11: Concord, Antioch, Martinez, Pittsburg) -
Joan Buchanan (Dist. 15: Livermore, Pleasanton, San Ramon, Walnut Creek)
Mary Hayashi (Dist. 18: Hayward, Oakland, Pleasanton, San Leandro)
Nancy Skinner(Dist. 14: Berkeley, El Cerrito, Richmond, Oakland)
Sandre Swanson(District 16: Oakland, Alameda, Piedmont)
Robert Wieckowski(Dist, 20: Fremont, Union City, Newark, Hayward, Pleasanton)