Robbie Clark

More than $3.5 million people in the United States are homeless and another 6 million people are on the verge of homelessness, paying more than half their income for rent and struggling to get by. The need for affordable housing is clear, from the tens of thousands of Atlanta residents that scrambled to get on a Section 8 waitlist last year to the 55,000 households that applied to be on Oakland's Section 8 waitlist in January. San Francisco waitlists for public housing and Section 8 combined total more than 40,000 households in need of affordable housing.

By Billy Trice Jr.

I've been a member of Causa Justa::Just Cause since 2000. I first got involved in the work to get a Just Cause Eviction Ordinance passed in Oakland. This ordinance, called Measure EE was going to require that landlords have a reason before they evict tenants from their property. I thought this was a really important tenant protection to have in our city so I did a lot of phone banking and precinct-walking to help pass the measure. It was a long and hard fight but I was really proud when it we won.