Resources

Expedited Affordable Housing Development: What Low-Income Communities Really Need July 26, 2016 By Amy Schur, ACCE; Sam Tepperman-Gelfant and Michelle Pariset, Public Advocates and Aimee Inglis, [...]

June 21, 2011 Mark Green, Chair, and Members ABAG Administrative Committee Adrienne Tissier, Chair, and Members Metropolitan Transportation Commission Dear Chairs and Members: We join several of [...]

By  Liz Guillen and John Affeldt   Public Advocates continues to play a key leadership role with the LCFF Equity Coalition as we help shape a new public school accountability system for [...]

Public Advocates Inc., a bold and highly regarded nonprofit civil rights law firm and advocacy organization with a $2.5m annual budget, is seeking a highly capable, full-time Grants Manager to [...]

Public Advocates proposed a new chapter on “Civil Rights and Environmental Justice in Regional Transportation Planning” for California’s RTP Guidelines. The proposed new chapter includes federal [...]

Best Practices for Parent Engagement in Local Control Funding Formula   best_practices_for_parent_engagement_-_lcff

Public Advocates released this report on Nov. 20, 2014, documenting the extent of required “service hours” in California’s charter schools. The report explains why the practice is illegal and [...]

More than forty groups have called upon MTC and ABAG to incorporate key elements of the “Equity, Environment and Jobs” Scenario into the final Plan Bay Area. On September 23, 2015 wrote a letter [...]

March 20, 2014 Principles for ensuring that Cap and Trade revenues deliver benefits to disadvantaged communities, as required by SB 535 (De Leon), as drafted by Public Advocates, APEN, Coalition [...]

May 20, 2014 Public Advocates, one of four leading members of the 535 Coalition, is working with Coalition partners to ensure that disadvantaged communities receive tangible, meaningful benefits [...]