Battery Powered Awards $952k to Housing & Homelessness

We are excited to announce that the Battery Powered community awarded $952,757 to organizations that are supporting the issues of housing and homelessness. Over the past few months, we learned how a vast shortage of housing in California is a direct cause of homelessness. We learned how exclusionary and racist policies have placed the burden of the housing crisis and homelessness on our Black and Brown neighbors.  But we also learned that there are solutions - solutions to prevent people from losing their housing and becoming homeless in the first place, solutions to preserve and expand affordable housing, and solutions to build more housing in ways that are climate-smart. As a community, we are proud to be supporting organizations working on these solutions, including the following:

Dignity Moves ($250,000) uses rapid, cost-effective, scalable housing solutions to create private rooms instead of group shelters as a dignified alternative to end unsheltered homelessness. 

Mercy Housing California ($189,157) is developing The Hub in Sunnydale as a space where adults and children of different incomes, ethnicities, and cultures come together to learn, play and grow in a public housing developement that is being revitalized and expanded.

Mission Economic Development Agency ($158,328) reverses displacement and drives equitable development through a place-based approach to preservation, production and protection of affordable real estate in San Francisco. 

Open Door Legal ($153,893) provides free, full-scope legal services and representation to low-income residents of San Francisco with a particular focus on housing and eviction prevention. 

Oakland Community Land Trust ($151,377) prevents displacement of long-time Oakland tenants through resident-led housing preservation and the creation of permanently affordable shared-equity and cooperative ownership opportunities.

Additionally, grants of $10,000 were made to each of the following exceptional organizations: California Housing Partnership, Greenbelt Alliance, North Beach Citizens, Richmond Neighborhood Housing Services, Housing Action Coalition.