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Episode 17: Right to Stay, Right to Return - Berkeley Housing Preference Policy (Part II)
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In this Part II of our three-part interview, we continue our conversation with Anna Cash (Community Development Project Coordinator at City of Berkeley, Jassmin Poyaoan former Program Director of the Community Economic Justice Clinic at East Bay Community Law center and current Program Director at Economic Justice Program at Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (San Francisco), and Ayanna Davis (Deputy Executive Director at Healthy Black Families). We dive deeper into Berkley’s new Preference Policy. What is a policy? What might this new policy mean for those that were unfairly pushed out or are currently at risk of systematically being run out of Berkeley?
Connect with our guest(s):
Ayanna Davis - Deputy Executive Director at Healthy Black Families, Inc.
Website: https://healthyblackfam.org/e4bb
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (510) 285-6689
Anna Cash - Community Development Project Coordinator at City of Berkeley
Website: https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/affordable-housing-berkeley/apply-affordable-housing-preferences
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (510) 981-5304
Jaasmin Poyaoan - former Program Director of Community Economic Justice Clinic at East Bay Community Law Center and current Program Director of Economic Justice Program at Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (San Francisco)
Website: https://ebclc.org/ and https://lccrsf.org/
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (209) 787-0093
Relevant Links:
1. Affordable Housing Rental Listings on Alameda County Housing Portal (for Maudelle Shirek Building applications click “see rentals”):
https://housing.acgov.org
2. Applying for Berkeley Housing Preference Certificates:
https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/affordable-housing-berkeley/apply-affordable-housing-preferences
3. What is a policy – Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy
4. From Prop 209 to Prop 16: Historical, Legal, and Activist Perspectives on Affirmative Action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRH7-g0Y1oI
5. Opinion: Turning Crisis Into Opportunity: Why Berkeley Need TOPA Now: https://baysfuture.org/opinion-turning-crisis-into-opportunity-why-berkeley-needs-topa-now/
6. Housing Protection, Preserving, and Producing – Metropolitan Transportation Commission:https://mtc.ca.gov/funding/investment-strategies-commitments/housing-solutions/housing-protection-preservation-production
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