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Together we are powerful
Today, I am angry, and I am hopeful. I am angry that giant corporations and billionaires can spend...
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Racial capitalism is on the ballot
This election, a generation-defining set of propositions is on the ballot in California. We will decide...
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Landmark renter protection bill is now law
Yesterday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a landmark renter protection bill into law. AB 1482, the Tenant...
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Big win: Google promises $1 billion for housing
This morning, Google CEO Sundar Pichai made a big announcement. After our two years of organizing...
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The Google Rent Hike: $235 million a year
This morning, we released new research that reveals Google needs to help create more than 5,000 new...
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San Jose Google: how we move forward
Last night, after a 10-hour City Council meeting filled with protests and impassioned testimony, the...
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Why we sued the City of San Jose
Today was a big day. Together with the First Amendment Coalition, we filed a lawsuit against the City...
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Measure V: $450 million for affordable housing
A place to call home is an essential ingredient to one’s self worth and personal dignity. But unfortunately...
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Crashing Google's marketing conference
Yesterday, Google came to San Jose. Not for the proposed 20,000-employee mega-campus it wants to open...
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Hey Google: Don't displace us
Today we attended Google's annual shareholder meeting in the company's hometown of Mountain View to...
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New renter laws in San Jose
Last week, the San Jose City Council voted to ban landlords from intimidating tenants by threatening...
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Our community plan for Google's San Jose mega-campus
After nine months of conversations with San Jose communities, today a delegation of local children...
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Our visit to the Googleplex
On Wednesday, nearly a hundred San Jose workers, residents, and community leaders assembled at the...
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The Google no-show
On Monday more than 150 people packed Gardner Community Center in San Jose to air their concerns about...
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Tuesday night...
On Tuesday night, our coalition of renters, advocates, and community organizations faced off against...
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Soaring rents and falling wages
As the tech boom has driven rents sky-high, renting families and seniors in San Jose have actually...
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San Jose takes to the streets
Over 300 people took to the streets of downtown San Jose yesterday afternoon with a clear message...
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Tell Google what San Jose needs
Over 200 community members came out last night to the Washington United Youth Center gym downtown...
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Report back from the first San Jose Google town hall
It was an overflow crowd at last night's town hall. 300 community members — from residents to low...
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The Bay Area takes action on housing and good jobs
Last night, the Bay Area took a major step towards addressing three of the region’s most urgent challenges: housing, displacement, and growing income inequality. Following a multi-year grassroots campaign that brought together communities from all nine Bay Area counties, the regional planning agencies – known as the Metropolitan Transportation Commission...
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San Jose Google negotiations begin
Last night, the San Jose City Council voted to start negotiations with Google for the tech giant’s...
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450,000 renters are now protected from unjust eviction
Last night, the San Jose City Council voted 9-2 for the Just Cause urgency ordinance, putting crucial...
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Just Cause wins in San Jose
Sixteen years ago, I came to San Jose as a young community organizer. Then as now, the housing crisis...
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Cashing In on Renters
As working families in San Jose struggle with sky-high rents and unjust evictions, the out-of-town...
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Historic vote moving $950M affordable housing bond this November
Yesterday, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to place a $950 million affordable housing bond on the November ballot to combat homelessness and address our regional housing crisis. The size and scope of this bond is unprecendented, aiming to develop thousands of safe and affordable homes in the Valley.
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Half a billion dollar victory for transit equity
Last week, the VTA Board of Directors voted unanimously to place a half-cent 30-year sales tax on...
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Silicon Valley passes landmark affordable housing policy
Every day, the Bay Area is topping national lists of places with housing crises. Now, we're at the top of a different list — the list of who's taking the lead on building affordable housing. Last week, the Valley Transportation Authority Board passed the strongest affordable housing policy of any transit agency in the country. The Valley...
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Victory: $287 billion plan will prioritize good jobs and renter protections
Several billion dollars in transportation and land use planning funds flow to the San Francisco Bay Area each year – a projected $287 billion in the next 25 years. In a groundbreaking policy shift, the regional planning and transportation agencies that oversee these funds voted this week to adopt two new priorities: stemming...
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