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Friend --
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%.
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.
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.
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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