Interchapter Partners
AI Now Institute
The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.
The European Action Coalition
The European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and the City is a convergence between social movements from different cities in European countries.
Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network, UCLA
The Housing Justice in Unequal Cities Network is a research coordination network designed to address the housing crisis in a variety of cities.
Kollektiv Orangotango
Kollektiv Orangotango is a self-organized network of critical geographers, friends and activists who deal with questions regarding space, power and resistance.
Mapping Action Collective
The Mapping Action Collective is a group based in Portland, Oregon that specialize in data-visualization, mapping, and data analysis
Ocean Hill-Brownsville Tenant Alliance
The Ocean Hill-Brownsville Tenant Alliance has been working to stop landlord technology from being deployed in buildings in Ocean Hill and Brownsville in Brooklyn, NYC
Bay Area Partners
3.9 Collective
The 3.9 Art Collective emerges as a compelling experiment at a time when some have willingly muted their protestations. Termed “Still Here”, this exhibition of African American artists “have adopted this statistic (3.9) and forged a banner of support and resistance
Alameda Renters Coalition
The Alameda Renters Coalition is a volunteer-run organization founded in 2014 to advocate for and empower renters.
Bay Area 4 All
Bay Area For All (BA4A) is a collaborative of grassroots and policy organizations ready to partner with nonprofit affordable housing developers and other key stakeholders in Oakland to take housing that is occupied by low-income residents off the speculative market and preserve it as permanently and deeply affordable.
Bay Area Rent Strike
The Bay Area Rent Strike is a movement to join together and prioritize lives and our communities over profit. Together, we can transform this moment of isolation into a moment of shared strength, support and compassion.
Betti Ono Gallery
For the past ten years, Betti Ono has held ground as an active cultural space and hub for art and community. As a Black women-led organization, we intentionally center Black and Brown women and girls in our work. Our mission is to amplify the voices and lives of artists, celebrate the culture of everyday people, and empower those in our community.
California Reinvestment Coalition
With over 300 member organizations across California that provide services to low-income communities and communities of color, the California Reinvestment Coalition (CRC) works to advance a fair and inclusive economy. CRC advocates for bank and corporate investment, lending, and financial services that expand access to affordable housing, small business ownership, good jobs, and other resources that build household and community wealth.
Clarion Alley Mural Project
The mission of the Clarion Alley Mural Project is to support and produce socially engaged and aesthetically innovative public art as a grassroots community-based, artist-run organization based in San Francisco.
Community Legal Services East Palo Alto
Founded in East Palo Alto, Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto is a nonprofit offering legal services that improve the lives of low-income families throughout the region. We specialize in immigration, housing, workers’ rights, records clearance, and consumer protection.
Council of Community Housing Organizations
The Council of Community Housing Organizations is a nonprofit coalition of 24 community-based housing developers and tenant advocates. Our collective longstanding mission is to foster the development of permanently affordable low-income housing in San Francisco, under community control and through non-speculative means of ownership, with adequate provisions for tenant services and empowerment.
Defend Aunti Frances
Aunti Frances is a beloved Black disabled activist, elder, Black Panther and community leader who had lived in North Oakland/South Berkeley her entire life. She was facing a no-fault eviction by a notorious loophole in Oakland renter protections. Defend Aunti Frances is part of a movement to end the devastating trend in which residents lose their housing because of loopholes in the law.
Eviction Defense Collaborative
The Eviction Defense Collaborative is the principal organization in San Francisco helping low-income tenants respond to eviction lawsuits. Each year we provide emergency legal services and rental assistance to over 5,000 tenants in San Francisco.
Eviction Free San Francisco
Eviction Free San Francisco is a group of San Franciscans who strive to stop evictions by landlords and speculators trying to make a quick buck.
Fremont Rise
R.I.S.E stands for "Residents Insisting On Social Equity." Fremont R.I.S.E. is a coalition of different community organizations fighting for social equity in Fremont. We come from a diverse group of cultural, religious, and ethnic backgrounds. We are united and resolved to make sure all residents are valued, especially those most in need. Our platform includes equitable development, greater affordable housing, improved local jobs and job training, and dignity for all people. If you are a person in need or are just fed up with the economic disparity that is affecting us all, we want to hear from you.
Green Action for Health and Environmental Justice
Green Action for Health and Environmental Justice mobilizes community power to win victories that change government and corporate policies and practices to protect health and to promote environmental, social and economic justice.
HOPE
HOPE’s mission is to empower people and communities, and to increase the impact of their most powerful resource- people's lived experiences.
Housing Rights Committee
The Housing Rights Committee has fought for tenants rights since 1979, when a group of seniors at Old St. Mary’s Church came together to organize against condo conversions displacing the elderly. They provide free, drop-in tenant's rights counseling for SF renters.
No Place Like Home, UC Santa Cruz
No Place Like Home is a community-initiated, student-engaged research project based at UCSC, that explores the affordable Housing Crisis in Santa Cruz.
North Bay Organizing Project
The North Bay Organizing Project (NBOP) is a grassroots, multi-racial, and multi-issue organization comprised of over twenty-two faith, environmental, labor, student and community-based organizations in Sonoma County.
people.power.media
[people. power. media] broadcasts efforts and perspectives from marginalized communities where grassroots organizations are working to change public policy.
Regional Tenant Organizing Network
The Regional Tenant Organizing Network (RTO) was started in 2015 to advance tenant protections and resist growing regional resegregation in the Bay Area.
San Mateo Legal Aid
The Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County’s mission is to fight social injustice through civil legal advocacy for people living in poverty.
Save Midtown
Save Midtown was started by a group of 139 working-class families in San Francisco's historic Fillmore-Western Addition, fighting back against diplacement
Serve the People San Jose
Serve the People San Jose is a grassroots movement of migrants, immigrants, and working class people; we believe in and envision a San José for the people and not a future of exploitation– from government or any tech corporations like Google that are displacing our communities.
SF Anti-Displacement Coalition
The San Francisco Anti Displacement Coalition is a group of tenant organizations and allies who organize against the soaring evictions and rent increases in our city, which have resulted in the displacement of thousands of San Franciscans.
SF State University Public Health Class
SF Tenants Union
The purpose of the San Francisco Tenants Union is to promote the preservation and expansion of the rights of tenants and the supply of affordable housing.
Stanford CS for Social Good
Stanford CS for Social Good is an organization of technologists, designers, and thinkers passionate about maximizing the benefits of technology and mitigating its harms.
Stanford Listen to the Silence
Listen to the Silence (LTS) is Stanford's annual Asian American issues conference. It was first held in 1995 out of a need to increase the visibility of Asian American issues as well as the conditions of the Asian American community.
Stanford’s Sustainable Cities Class (2014-2020)
Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC)
Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC) is a member-run housing organization built out of the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America. We encourage all tenants of private landlords, unhoused people, and public housing residents, to join us in organizing councils.
Tenants Together
Tenants Together is dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of California tenants to safe, decent and affordable housing.
UC Berkeley Geography and Archaeology Classes
University of San Francisco Urban Politics Classes
New York City Partners
Chinatown Art Brigade
Chinatown Art Brigade is a cultural collective of artists, media makers and activists creating art and media to advance social justice.
Cities for People
Cities for People, Not for Profit: Gentrification and Housing Activism in Bushwick is an oral history project tracing the history of ongoing gentrification and subsequent fight for affordable housing in Bushwick, Brooklyn from the perspective of artists, activists, and community residents.
JustFix.nyc
JustFix.nyc is a non-profit that builds free tools in support of NYC's housing movement.
Mi Casa No Es Su Casa
Mi Casa No Es Su Casa is an anti-capitalist collective led by native New Yorkers based in Bushwick-Brooklyn, that uses art + direct action to build a visible resistance to gentrification and the displacement of low-income Black and Brown families in NYC and beyond.
Picture the Homeless
Picture the Homeless was founded on the principle that homeless people have civil and human rights regardless of our race, creed, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, or economic, disability, or migration status. Picture the Homeless was founded and is led by homeless people. We refuse to accept being neglected and we demand that our voices and experience are heard at all levels of decision-making that impact us.
Los Angeles Partners
Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement
The Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement is a coalition born from the complex specificities of Los Angeles. We are new and old friends who find ourselves at the intersection of multiple overlapping struggles. We have come together to confront the current crisis of evictions and abusive real estate practices in L.A., to question the role of culture in gentrification and the narrative of ‘inevitability,’ and to push to stop displacement in its tracks.
Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
The UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2) is an interdisciplinary research center committed to reimagining technology, championing racial and economic justice in the tech sector, and strengthening democracy through culture-making and public policy work.
Chinatown Community for Equitable Development
Chinatown Community for Equitable Development (CCED) is an all volunteer, multi-ethnic, intergenerational organization based in Los Angeles Chinatown that builds grassroots power through organizing, education, and mutual help.
Coalition for Economic Survival
The Coalition for Economic Survival is a multi-racial, multi-culture grass-roots community-based organization that has been dedicated to organizing low and moderate income people to win economic and social justice throughout the greater Los Angeles area since 1973.
Debt Collective
The goal of the Debt Collective is to fight back and transform how basic necessities, such as education, health care, and housing are provided.Democratic Socialists of America-LA
Hillside Villa Tenants Association
The Hillside Villa Tenants Association is a movement of tenants displaced from our previous homes to make room for the Convention Center, Staples Center, and LA Live. We speak many languages, and we formed the Hillside Villa Tenants Association to respond with one voice to these eviction notices masquerading as rent increases.LATU Hollywood
Los Angeles Poverty Department
The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) is the first performance group in the nation made up principally of homeless people, and the first arts program of any kind for homeless people in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Tenants Union
The L.A. Tenants Union is an autonomous, member-funded union which fights for the human right to housing. From our five years of organizing tenants against evictions and harassment, with rent strikes, direct action, and media campaigns, we know tenants need to come together, all of us, to win the rent forgiveness we need.
NOlympics LA
NOlympics LA was launched by the Housing & Homelessness committee of the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America in 2017. The coalition has since expanded to include over two dozen partner orgs based in LA and California, as well as a growing transnational movement with dozens of groups around the world.
Skid Row History Museum & Archive
The Skid Row History Museum & Archive has an extensive archive of Skid Row History – including planning documents, articles, videos, oral histories, audios, interview transcripts + more – available for casual and scholarly research. The archive documents the culture that developed on Skid Row—an activist culture, artistic culture and recovery culture— that offers a useful model for other communities navigating gentrification pressures.
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is an alliance of different organizations collaborating and taking collective action together toward a common goal. We reject all forms of police oppression and any policy that make us all suspects in the eyes of the State. Our vision is the dismantling of government-sanctioned spying and intelligence gathering, in all its multiple forms.
Street Watch LA
Street Watch LA is a coalition of organizers concerned about tenant rights.
Union de Vecinos Eastside Local
Union de Vecinos is an organization of neighborhood committees where low income working families, seniors, and youth come together to see the conditions of their neighborhoods, reflect on the root causes of these conditions, and act to bring about real concrete change.