Join Gray Panthers and friends for several stops to visit and see new local options in Affordable Housing.

We’ll visit with residents of a self-governing, permanently affordable Housing Cooperative, and its Community Land Trust partner.

Then for those who can stick with us for another hour or two, we'll visit some other nearby projects on the path to permanent affordability.

Housing is too important to leave to the market, or to governments alone. We'll need a mass movement of movements with a shared vision to see how the Social Housing movement exists and is growing.

The rents are too damn high - and housing is too important to leave to the market.  The Trump budget wants to cut affordable housing vouchers and funds. Evictions, displacement and criminalizing the unhoused are not the only choices we have.

HOUSING AS A HUMAN RIGHT - Updates on Community Land Trusts (CLTs) and other progress toward a social housing ecosystem in California. Join us in by zoom, for this East Bay Affordable Housing Month special event,.

Gray Panthers have been hosting events for Affordable Housing Month since 2018, highlighting seniors and disabled adults, housed and unhoused.

In previous years, we brought inspiring lessons from the 4th international Social Housing Festival #ISHF and its organizer Housing Europe's common goal for Housing as a Human Right: to continuously grow the percent and variety of permanently affordable, non-commodified housing stock in service to participatory, green and inclusive neighborhoods and cities -- advancing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and Charter of Human Rights. We discussed the emergence of such a movement here in the US and California. And, we've stayed involved with multiple groups and coalitions working on this.

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Click here for a 3 minute video: Social Housing 101