Every day, more people are becoming unhoused and more households are being evicted from their current homes and are unable to find another place to live that they can afford!

Our housing justice movement has united around winning stronger tenant protections and fighting to expand social housing - housing that is off the private, for-profit market, permanently affordable, and where tenants have a real voice, if not control.

San Diego Organizing Project and ACCE (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment) are co-sponsoring an important Housing Crisis Town Hall on Sunday, September 8th at 2:30pm at Christ the King Catholic Church. We are joining together to call on Governor Newsom to:

• Fulfill his promise of meeting the housing needs of California’s low income and working families by preserving & producing 1.2 million affordable homes by 2030, and securing the revenue needed to fully fund this goal.
• Allow for innovation and flexibility to fund both successful existing models of affordable housing and new approaches that prioritize permanent affordability, climate resiliency, and other goals such as community and resident control as appropriate;
• Create new revenue streams that leverage California’s great wealth and ensure that corporations and the wealthy few pay what they owe our state in order to meet these goals.

At this meeting we will hear from community members about the struggles our people are experiencing, discuss needed solutions and ask for our elected officials to respond.

This event is part of a large statewide coalition effort. In the lead up to the November election, community groups and other housing justice allies, most of whom are part of Housing Now!, are holding public events calling on the State of California to invest in the level of public funding needed to meet their own stated goal of 1 million more affordable homes by 2030.