Model and Strategy
The Housing Action Coalition (HAC) is working to solve our housing shortage, displacement, and affordability crisis by:
- Advocating for building more homes for residents of all income levels.
- Enacting new laws to make it faster, easier, and less expensive to build enough homes to meet the housing needs for residents of all income levels.
- Educating the general public, media, lawmakers, and community groups about our housing problems and solutions, and what individuals and organizations can do to affect change.
- Changing who’s in charge of housing by electing pro-housing leaders to state and local office, and bringing affordable housing ballot measures directly to voters.
In partnership with our ever-growing network of pro-housing lawmakers, allied organizations, and neighbors, this year HAC will:
- Introduce two ballot measures in San Francisco aimed at ending exclusionary zoning, creating first-time home ownership opportunities for historically marginalized communities, and providing funding and technical assistance for such first-time buyers.
- Sponsor three pieces of housing legislation in the California State Assembly and Senate (SB 649, AB 2234, and AB 2063) that will spur the production of more affordable housing, strengthen tenant protection provisions to prevent displacement, and expedite the residential building approval process.
- Propel the campaigns of pro-housing leaders and champion pro-housing policies in cities across the Bay Area through our proven combination of grasstops + grassroots advocacy that activates new supporters.
Impact
We consider the exponential growth of our network of advocates as a key measure of our impact. With every housing development project we advocate for, and every piece of legislation we sponsor, co-sponsor, or lobby for, we engage, educate, and activate new pro-housing neighbors.
Over the past three years, our small but mighty team has grown our coalition of pro-housing advocates by 300%. In 2021 alone, these neighbors helped HAC support the construction of 9,040 new homes across 21 unique housing development projects, 25% of which were designated for low-income families.
Over the next year, we will engage thousands of new neighbors as petition-signers, letter-writers, and powerful public speakers to win approval for new homes, enact new state and local pro-housing laws, elect pro-housing leaders to state and local office, and bring new pro-housing ballot measures directly to voters who are eager to advance solutions to our housing problems. By empowering residents to be a force for change, we will continue to grow the pro-housing movement and accelerate pro-housing progress across the Bay Area and California.
Leadership
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Todd David
Executive Director
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Corey Smith
Deputy Director