Calling all housing advocates! 📣 Join us as we hit Millbrae's streets, building support for the Home Key development by canvassing businesses and neighborhoods to spread awareness about this harmful and costly lawsuit!

Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 23, 2024- our chance to make a difference! Sign up now to volunteer with us and bring a friend for double the impact. Together, let’s make a difference and stand up for our community.

Get ready to celebrate Affordable Housing Month 2024 with the electrifying theme "Building Inclusion"! Throughout the month of May, we will highlight the importance of creating diverse and inclusive communities where everyone has access to affordable housing. We are thrilled to invite you to a month-long celebration, offering a variety of events to foster connections with fellow housing advocates and provide unique learning opportunities. Come join us!

Event Proposal - Deadline extended to March 15, 2024

We're thrilled by the amazing response to our call for Affordable Housing Month 2024 events! Due to the overwhelming interest, we're extending the deadline for event proposals one last time! 

Got a brilliant idea brewing or suddenly inspired? Don't wait! Submit your event proposal by Friday, March 15 at 5:00 PM by clicking the button below.

Sponsor Affordable Housing Month 

We are halfway to our goal of raising $150,000 in sponsorships for this year's Affordable Housing Month! Your support can help us surpass our target and will grant you extensive benefits, including exposure across various platforms, including esteemed publications like the San Mateo Daily Journal and The Almanac, ensuring your brand reaches thousands of community members. Don't miss out on this opportunity to showcase your organization's commitment to making a difference. Learn more about the benefits of sponsorship and join us in creating positive change in our community. Click the button below for our online form or download our Sponsorship Interest Form today!

In 2023, HLC launched a new program to engage a range of San Mateo faith communities in advocacy, activism, and action for housing justice at the city, county, and state level. The response has been heartening. One of the main accomplishments of this program last year was the support of SB4. San Mateo County had more faith communities endorsing the bill than any other county in the state. The SB4 campaign was overwhelmingly successful and we are already seeing YIGBY’s impact in San Mateo County in the first two months of the year.

In 2024, one of the faith initiatives is to launch a pro-housing, anti-displacement movement among faith communities to build the voice and power of faith leaders to support policy change by involving 15 committed housing champions from congregations across the county. After targeted outreach and a number of 1-1 conversations, we kicked off the housing champion network in mid-February. We had 19 housing champions present, representing 16 congregations (with additional people committed who could not attend the meeting). The energy in the room was palpable, and Evvy gave a powerful talk on the State of Housing in San Mateo County. It was great to hear the diverse work people are passionate about and engaged in throughout the county!

Housing champions will join the housing conversation with other HLC leaders, attend local council meetings to support affordable housing projects, build relationships with others who care about housing, and learn how to influence housing policies and practices. It is time for the faith communities across the county to lend their voices to further fair and affordable housing and to help keep people in their homes. Stay tuned for updates!!

Interested? Contact revgpn@gmail.com