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February 21, 2017 – Former Public Advocates attorney Angela Glover Blackwell is featured in this article by Kurt Alexander of the San Francisco Chronicle. Blackwell has received a [...]

Fair housing law prohibits discrimination in housing on the basis of race, national origin, disability status, and other protected characteristics. The 1968 Fair Housing Act also includes a [...]

September 30, 2018: AB 686 has been signed by Governor Brown and will become law on January 1, 2019! Thank you Governor Brown and Assemblymember Miguel Santiago for supporting this visionary fair [...]

February 14, 2017 – Katie Sloan, of Law.com, writes about the need for law firms to change their hiring processes. Historically, law school attended and class rank were at the top of the [...]

Michael Cabanatuan of SF Gate covered a meeting of the BART board of directors. Karem Herrera, a member of the Public Advocates team, was featured in the article as one of the people who [...]

February 7, 2017 – Cecily O’Connor, of the Bay Area Monitor, describes the impact that Plan Bay Area will have on our region. Plan Bay Area will decide how $300 billion in [...]

February 6, 2017 – Susan Ferriss of the Center for Public Integrity spotlights the extraordinary effect that the Local Control Funding Formula (LCCF) is having on education in California. [...]

Originally published in December of 2013 By Richard Marcantonio In Part 1 of this blog, I talked about planning as an important form of law-making. Here, I turn to the question of why it’s also [...]

February 1, 2017 – The New Republic’s Graham Vyse explores how the issue of charter schools is dividing the civil rights movement. Organizations like the NAACP have called for a [...]