(note week-earlier-than-usual date to avoid Memorial Day holiday week)

Get to know the California Social housing ecosystem through bottom-up and middle-down networking and collaborations.

The East Bay's Gray Panthers network has been hosting Affordable Housing Month events for the last 5 years. Despite heroic efforts by members of East Bay Housing Organizations --- prospects can look daunting this year.

Crippling budget cuts at HUD, California rents are still too high, the affordable housing crisis continues, more labor shortages and rising materials costs, Tenant Opportunities to Purchase initiatives failed in most parts of the state.

One bright spot - a north star! - comes from lessons learned from the international Social Housing Festival. #ISHF and the goals and federated structure of its primary organizer Housing Europe, which continue to bring together stakeholders in Housing as a Human Right and initiatives in green and inclusive cities around the world.

Invited speakers and stakeholders including Housing Justice Alliance California, Housing Now!, Tenants Together, ACCE, the California Community Land Trust Network and the Democratic Renters Caucus will discuss organizing tenant unions for voter initiatives, and coalition priorities, and the limits of short-term funding coalitions.

Opportunities for small group breakouts will round out the Q&A and discussion time.

Agenda

1:30 Welcome and Introductions to New Members and First-Timers

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Adjourn

Open discussion zoom until 4pm

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