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Today, ACCE is proud to release our Housing Justice Narrative Report, documenting how our community-led campaigns have advanced the narrative around housing justice in California over the past 7 years.
During this period, ACCE has led efforts to secure groundbreaking tenant protections in 11 cities across California and helped secure the largest expansion of tenant rights in recent U.S. history with the 2019 Tenant Protection Act.
The contributions of our communications and narrative work speak for themselves:
- Featured in 11,500 articles, reaching 25.4 billion people
- Email pitches capturing journalist attention at nearly 20% above industry average
- Trained over 300 directly impacted residents as media spokespeople since 2020
- Grown our social media platforms by 10K%.
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The report details our three-pronged housing justice narrative strategy:
1) EXPOSING CORPORATE LANDLORDS: Our members have courageously confronted corporate giants like Blackstone, revealing how Wall Street speculation destroys communities. Their testimony has reached national audiences, influencing policy proposals at the highest levels of government.
2) ADVANCING TENANT PROTECTIONS: By sharing powerful personal stories of displacement and resistance, and highlighting the disproportionate impacts on communities of color -exposing the structural racism that is embedded in our housing system - our members have secured tenant protections in 11 California cities and helped pass the 2019 Tenant Protection Act – the largest expansion of tenant rights in recent U.S. history.
3) PROMOTING A PUBLIC OPTION / SOCIAL HOUSING: Our members have moved beyond critique to advance bold solutions, pushing for large-scale public investment in housing that is off the private, for-profit market - whether owned publicly, by non-profits or by the community itself. Along the way, our members have been demonstrating that community-controlled housing can work. We've successfully transferred over 20 properties into community land trusts and secured millions in public funding for social housing.
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These achievements aren't just policy victories – they represent a shift in how Californians and our legislators understand the housing crisis. By naming corporate villains, centering real people and exposing racial harm, and promoting bold solutions, we've helped move our housing justice solutions from the margins to the mainstream of public conversation. When we change the story, we change what's possible.
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We invite you to read the report, share it widely, and join us in our continued work to ensure housing is treated not as a commodity but as a human right.
In solidarity,
Christina Livingston, Executive Director, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE)
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