All Home’s Post

Are you a supporter of CA Prop 5? Want to help pass this measure that would give local voters the power to address the affordable housing and infrastructure needs in their communities? Join us for a rally and volunteer event near you this Saturday, October 5th! ✅ United Democratic Campaign Office in Hayward at 10am. RSVP at https://lnkd.in/gmHGJ4Fn ✅ Dolores Park in San Francisco at 11am. RSVP at https://lnkd.in/gksisx_B?

How can we solve homelessness? Join us on October 21st, 6:30pm, at Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland for a FREE screening and Q&A of A Bigger Vision Film's new feature documentary BEYOND THE BRIDGE: A Solution to Homelessness. All Home is bringing this powerful film to the Bay in partnership with United Way Bay Area, East Bay Housing Organizations, Kaiser Permanent, Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. RSVP now — https://lnkd.in/gYMkaBF8 #BeyondtheBridge

Check out this opportunity to learn more about Prop 5 and get involved, so we can empower local communities to make their own decisions about the affordable housing and other vital infrastructure they need to thrive.

Come to the movies with us! 🍿 Join us for the official premiere of seven new short videos about housing justice from around the Bay Area. Get connected, get inspired, and hear from the storytellers, filmmakers, and organizations who were part of the project. https://ow.ly/7YPo50TkwyW

Yesterday, the BAHFA board voted unanimously to pull the Regional Measure 4 off the November ballot. For the last three years, we’ve been working with our partners to put a regional affordable housing bond measure like this on the ballot, and this is a significant and frustrating setback. Let’s be clear about what happened here. The same anti-government, anti-housing extremists who have been blocking progress in California for decades unleashed a barrage of well-timed lawsuits and got lucky. As a result, over the last week, we and other campaign leaders made the difficult but necessary recommendation to the BAHFA board to pull RM 4 off the ballot. As disappointing as this is for us advocates, we know that it is truly devastating for the hundreds of thousands of people in our region who are struggling just to get by and stay here. But make no mistake: we’re staying in this fight, and we must win it. Structural change and a lot more funding are still necessary to make the Bay Area a place where all families thrive. Proposition 5 is still on the November ballot, which would deliver structural change to enable voters to approve affordable housing and infrastructure bonds that most Californians consistently support. Passing it would be a huge help to all our efforts, and that will now have more of our attention and resources in the next 83 days. Legal and fundraising challenges have complicated both Proposition 5 and RM 4 enough that if both measures continued to be on the November ballot, both campaigns are unlikely to succeed. We may only have one shot at something like RM 4, and our communities can’t afford for us to fail. So we believe it’s better to regroup, learn what we can from this, build our movement, and come back stronger to win big next time.

Join our team! We're hiring for two full time positions. ✅ Director Administration - oversee HR functions, manage facility operations, supervise office services, and ensure the overall efficiency of org operations. ✅ Research Analyst - support implementation of our core policy initiatives and work with local governments on systems planning and coordination within the homelessness response systems. Learn more, apply yourself, or spread the word. https://lnkd.in/gEDmG6g

Recently, Governor Gavin Newsom and other politicians have made calls to remove encampments without providing safe, stable places for people to go. This only distracts public attention from the real solutions supported by experts and evidence: more affordable homes, preventing homelessness before it happens, and quality interim (non-congregate) housing options. "To reduce homelessness in the Bay Area, we must focus on compassionate and proven solutions that work. Moving people along, separating them from their belongings, potentially charging them with a crime or issuing a fine, only makes it harder for them to get housed. A home is what solves homelessness—punishing people for not having a home makes the problem worse.” Read our full joint response with Bay Area Community Services and United Way Bay Area https://lnkd.in/g4tAswUv

Join our team! We're hiring a Director of Administration to help foster a positive work environment, maintain effective operational procedures, and ensure that the physical and administrative infrastructure supports our mission. Spread the word or apply yourself! https://lnkd.in/gEDmG6g

All Home Community Advisory Councilmember, Anthony Carrasco wrote in a The Sacramento Bee letter to the editor, "Punishment is not an evidence-based solution to homelessness. The Supreme Court may have enabled municipalities to remain trapped in a pointless and pathetic process of punishing the poor, however, the fight for housing justice continues wherever people of conscience find the courage to love their unhoused neighbors." Read the full letter: https://lnkd.in/gqQpMyZx

#SCOTUS' decision on #JohnsonVGrantsPass allows local governments to punish people for sleeping outside when they have nowhere else to go, even though experts agree that criminalizing homelessness only makes it harder to solve. Luckily, the rest of this week’s news has the Bay Area poised to double down on proven solutions to homelessness. ✔ On Tuesday, we released our Regional Action Plan that serves as a roadmap to making homelessness rare, brief and one-time. ✔ On Wednesday, MTC voted to put a $20 billion affordable housing bond measure on the November ballot of all Bay Area counties. ✔ On Thursday, the Legislature voted to put structural change to enable housing solutions on the ballot statewide through ACA 10. Despite the disappointing ruling made earlier today, we cannot afford to let it distract us from the proven solutions right in front of us. Let’s come together and choose a better future for the Bay Area, where everyone in our region can stay here and thrive. https://lnkd.in/gz9ZDqKP