East Bay Housing Organizations

We're glad to see coverage of new affordable homes that leads with the perspective of a new resident. This building in the City of Alameda - Local Government houses 28 formerly homeless veterans in its 60 units of Senior Housing. "In the 10 months since Paul Washington moved into the Corsair Flats in Alameda Point, he hasn’t just watched a new apartment building come out of the ground next-door. He has seen a whole new neighborhood pop up on the western edge of the island ci...ty. Washington, a 68-year-old retired truck driver and Air Force veteran who was one of the first to establish residency at Alameda Point’s first new residential building, has watched the sidewalks get built. He observed traffic islands and jogging paths materialize. He tracked the construction of a wedge-shaped grassy open space and a children’s playground. Condos have opened to the east. To the west a high-end rental complex is days from welcoming its first residents. A new ferry terminal has been completed, although its opening has been delayed by the pandemic. I’ve seen this place come up from scratch, said Washington. I was lucky to be one of the first residents to move into the neighborhood. ... Eden Housing is also a few months away from delivering a second affordable building 70 family-sized apartments. The first building had more than 500 applications. Demand for all three types of housing the affordable units, $1.2 million condos, and $3,500-a-month apartments has exceeded expectations, according to Michael Sorochinsky, the CEO of Cypress Equity, which, in addition to building individual apartment buildings, is the master developer for the whole project. While the island’s south shore has a row of garden-style apartment buildings, new multifamily buildings are banned in most of the city." Read more about this project and its importance in providing new homes in Alameda: https://www.sfchronicle.com//After-23-years-Alameda-s-wate

EBHO is now hiring for two positions: - Temporary Policy Associate - Full-Time - Temporary Communications Specialist - Part-Time Temporary Policy Associate: "This position is appropriate for someone with a background in public policy, especially in housing or land use, but we are open to a range of experience levels and encourage a diverse applicant pool."... To read more about the Policy Associate, click here: https://www.idealist.org//855ae35b622f417ea0d3b06a75c80597 Temporary Communication Specialist: "Day-to-day duties include: assisting with organizing communications resources, editing videos and images, creating visual collateral from written content, and drafting written communications. In addition, the Communications Specialist will support EBHO’s program and advocacy work through help with logistics, content organizing, and community-correspondence tasks." To read more about the Communications Specialist Position, click here: https://www.idealist.org//ea8c8d6380c347b9a62d3672e50d96cc To share both positions with your networks, please use this link: http://ebho.org/about/employment-a-internships/ Thank you for sharing with great candidates!

Advocacy can win what our communities need! Glad to see coverage that federal funds will be used to ensure tenants stay housed with increased access to legal protections, among other critical resources.

A #JustRecovery4Oak means investing in solutions to homelessness, keeping communities safe & healthy, and providing services for the working-class Black, Latino & Asian families that have been hit the hardest. We call on the Mayor to provide a transparent plan on how the city will use funds from the Federal American Rescue Plan to invest in preserving good jobs, housing for people that need it, and protecting front-line workers. @LibbySchaaf must prioritize the people in our Oakland Recovery. #RefundOakland #OaklandRecoversTogether https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r296cTXEaYI

Community Foods Market, the first full-service grocery store in West Oakland in the last 30+ years, has been hit hard by the pandemic economic downturn and is in danger of closing if they cannot get more customers in the next 30 days. So many neighbors have been hit hard by the pandemic and spending at the store has dwindled as people's funds have been stretched thin. Access to quality food is vital to thriving neighborhoods and we need to work together to preserve this comm...unity resource. Listen to their Call to Action, and sign up to their booster campaign here: https://mailchi.mp/communityfoodsmarket/save-our-store https://youtu.be/nICSDBymXzs

This week EBHO joined organizations across the nation calling on our representatives to ensure the "American Recovery Plan" will be used to ensure stable, affordable housing will be invested in and available for all who need it. "Our first and best opportunity to advance some of these bold housing solutions is in the American Recovery Plan, a soon-to-be-released infrastructure and recovery proposal from President Biden to combat the climate crisis, advance racial equity, and build back better. To achieve these ambitious goals, Congress must address the urgent housing needs facing extremely low-income households, disproportionately Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), by including in any recovery package the HoUSed campaign’s infrastructure priorities." Join us in signing on to this letter today:

California's AB-71 is an important piece of legislation that will save lives and is part of the suite of policy changes in the Roadmap Home 2030. "A powerful group of nonprofits and housing advocates Thursday called for bold statewide reforms and higher corporate taxes to attack California’s homelessness crisis and affordable housing shortage. The 10-year, Roadmap Home 2030 proposal, backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and charitable arms of the James Irvine and Conrad ...N. Hilton families, aims to end homelessness and create 1.2 million affordable homes in California. The sprawling plan a mix of policy and community activism calls for far more aggressive action by lawmakers and the business community. The total package could cost $17.9 billion annually." https://www.mercurynews.com//housing-advocates-call-for-h/ #Community #Housing #affordablehomesforall

Senior Affordable Housing Waitlist Application Opening in Richmond at The Terraces Senior Apartments: Housing Authority of the County of Contra Costa announces the opening of the listed Project-Based Voucher (PBV) waiting list for The Terraces Senior Apartments at 2100 Nevin in Richmond. To apply, you must be 62 years of age or older.... This is not for the housing choice voucher waiting list. Large households for three and four bedroom units are highly encouraged to apply The list will be open from Monday, March 22, 2021, at 10 AM through Thursday, April 1, 2021, at 4:00 PM. To apply, read the information on the PDF attached here: http://www.contracostahousing.org//Opening%20of%20Site%20B Applications should be submitted here: http://www.contracostahousing.org/ Call the number listed on the website with questions.

#RentRelief is now available for low-income residents of the East Bay impacted by the pandemic. Read about how rent relief will be disbursed where you live and sign up for our Rent Relief Info Session on April 16th. Then, share the information far & wide. After a year of organizing to fill the financial hole created by COVID-19 among low-income renters and housing providers, $171 million in rental assistance is now available in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties (with more on... the way, thanks to the American Rescue Plan)! Since the start of the pandemic, EBHO has insisted that no one who’s suffered due to COVID-19 should lose their home or end up with a mountain of rental debt. And we’ve called upon our leaders to prioritize assistance for tenants and owners of affordable housing so that our communities don’t lose this precious resource to speculative investors, who’ve caused so much housing insecurity for low-income residents and communities of color in the first place. Thank you for standing with us! We couldn’t have done it without our members and supporters. Now, we need to work together to get rental assistance to the people who need it most. #KeepOaklandHoused #KeepCaliforniaHoused #ContraCostaCounty #AlamedaCounty https://ebho.salsalabs.org/rentreliefapril2021

TODAY EBALDC opens its application list, which happens one time a year. If you or someone you love is low-income and qualifies for community-subsidized affordable housing view for more information and apply now: http://ebaldc.org/how-to-apply/ #AffordableHomesForAll #AffordableHousing #Application