Causa Justa Just Cause | Media / Press Archive

Building Sustainable Leadership :: Construyendo un liderazgo sostenible

Our executive director is going on 3-month sabbatical. Vanessa Moses has been with Causa Justa :: Just Cause for 13 years. She is one of the founding staff members of the organization and started as an organizer with Just Cause
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Elder Fights Off Attempted 700% Rent Hike

After her husband died she received a rent increase of 700 percent -- almost 9 times her current rent -- which caused a tremendous amount of distress.

Building a Movement for Affordable & Healthy Housing

Renters are rising, organizing, and building a movement to win affordable, dignified, and sustainable housing for all. We know that only we can create a society where housing is not a commodity but a human right. On June 8, renters,
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OAKLAND ‘CLOSES THE LOOPHOLE’ ON TENANT INEQUALITY

OAKLAND — Tenants and advocates are celebrating a huge victory. At the second reading, Oakland City Council voted 6-0 (1 excused; 1 recused), to amend the local rent stabilization ordinance to close a major “loophole” in renter protections. The legislation
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Oakland City Council Must #ClosetheLoopholes

Oakland’s housing affordability crisis is deepening inequality and forcing working-class communities of color out of the city. Rent stabilization is an essential policy tool to stop displacement and must be applied uniformly to duplex and triplex buildings. Oakland City Council
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#ClosetheLoopholes to Defend Oakland’s Rent Stabilized Housing

Oakland council members have the responsibility to act to preserve affordable housing in Oakland by protecting duplex and triplex units.

Becoming A Country Of The Disappeared

We denounce the recent SCOTUS decision to roll back constitutional protections of due process for immigrants, stripping them of their legal rights and expanding the detention system.

Our Communities Need More Than Luck, We Need Justice

We demand transparency and accountability around the violent deaths and practices that have occurred under the jurisdiction of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Dept.

It Takes Strong Roots to Achieve Climate Justice

We know that the fight for truly affordable and safe, dignified housing and tenants rights is intrinsic to the fight for our planet.

Resources For You To Breathe Easier

Community! Air quality is continuing to deteriorate. Please wear a mask of at least N95 (P100 is best) quality anytime you go outside and stay indoors and near air purifiers if this is at all possible for you. Bay Area
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People Power Defeated Deep Pockets in Oakland, San Francisco

Measure Y’s people-powered victory, speaks to the strength of creating a grassroots organizing movement that will not and cannot be morally defeated by big spending by the real estate industry

Expand Rent Control: Vote Yes on Prop 10: The Affordable Housing Act

It’s time for more tenants to have rent control. Vote Yes on 10 to repeal Costa Hawkins on November 6th, 2018!

Build Oakland Tenant Power with Measure Y

Measure Y is a ballot measure that, if passed in November, would close a critical eviction protection loophole for duplex and triplex residents in Oakland.

Mobilize Against Displacement, Homelessness, and Skyrocketing Rents

Volunteer to support #YESon10 #YESonY and #YESonC

Housing Resources :: Recursos para la vivienda

Dear supporters, allies and clients, all our offices in SF and Oakland will be closed for summer break from August 6-10, including our Tenant Rights Clinics. We will re-open our offices on Monday August 13th at 1PM We will have
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Building Urban Youth Power

By Hunter King Around the country, urban youth of color face big challenges – access to education and jobs, substance abuse, violence and an angry wave of white nationalism that is making attacks all too common. In early July, youth
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Shaping the Terrain for Community Power

We fought to put powerful community-led initiatives like Prop F on the ballot this year, and we won!

Education For Liberation Summer :: Verano De Educación Para Liberación

E4LS 2018 Applications due 5/25 :: Aplicación de E4LS

INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ DAY CELEBRATES IMMIGRANTS AND FIGHT FOR JUSTICE

Hundreds of folks gathered in Oakland to lift up the many struggles and triumphs of workers around the world on International Workers’ Day on May 1.

La habitabilidad de la vivienda y la salud

DECLARACIóN 23 de abril de 2016 El informe del departamento de salud pública del condado de Alameda encuentra una brecha económica creciente y mayores inequidades de salud para los residentes dependiendo de la raza y el lugar Las recomendaciones se
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ACPHD Releases Report on Deepening Health Problems Among Oakland Children

Alameda County Public Health Dept. Report Finds Widening Economic Divide and Greater Health Inequities for Residents According to Race and Place Recommendations focus on improving gaps in the current system and on better alignment of policy, practice, and resources (
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Urban Shield No More!

The end of Urban Shield is a monumental victory and testament to a vision of Community Defense beyond policing.

We Can End Urban Shield

Join the Stop Urban Shield Coalition Tuesday, March 27 for a 10AM press conference and then the meeting at 11AM at the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, to urge them to say NO to the Sheriff’s request to fund Urban
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A King’s Radical Legacy :: El legado radical de Martin Luther King

By Madison Ashley Causa Justa and hundreds of community members–from young children to seniors– took to the streets of downtown Oakland Jan. 15, to reclaim the radical legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr through marching, dance, art, and displays
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No Human Being is Illegal :: Ninguno de nosotros es prescindible

The removal of Temporary Status Protection is yet another strike against our community.

Fight for Real Rent Control Will Continue

Hundreds of renters, organizers and housing rights allies streamed into the Capitol Jan. 11

Appreciating Two Movement Leaders

Espanol sigue Dear Causa Justa family: Two of our longtime leaders are headed in new directions. Dawn Phillips, Co-Director of Programs and Robbie Clark, Co-Director of Community Rights will both be transitioning out of Causa Justa. We feel honored by
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Tenants Across the State to Flood Capitol Chambers for Costa Hawkins Repeal

SACRAMENTO–Hundreds of tenants across the state are convening Thursday, Jan. 11, at the capitol to demand a full repeal of the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, the state law that restricts local rent control measures. The Assembly Housing Committee is to
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Sanctuary For All: Building a Path Toward Grassroots Democracy

Español sigue Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution to the good of all. Peace is
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San Francisco Tenants Squash Evictions and Win 22k Rent Reimbursement!

Español sigue Bessy Wong, long-term tenant in the Mission, has been living in her unit with her family since 1994. The landlord recently renovated part of the building and then issued an Owner Move-In Eviction dated June 12th, 2017. CJJC
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Defend DACA and Beyond – Continuing to Organize and Dream Transformatively

As our immigrant communities reel from the announcement that the Trump regime ended DACA – Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals – we commit even more deeply to organizing.

Longtime Bayview Family Fights off Second Eviction Attempt

(español sigue) When the Pelayo-Valenzuela family first came to San Francisco in 1996 they struggled to find decent and affordable housing. Norma and Faustino lived in expensive yet tiny studios, shared cramped units with other families while having
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Tenants Get Keys To Their Restored Apartment But Not Without Strings

May 2017-Three years after being displaced when a fire roared through their apartment Trinidad Sanchez and her daughter Cindy Salazar and two grandchildren will be getting the keys to their restored apartment in the Bayview on Thursday where they have
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Office Closed/oficina cerrada Dec. 24th – Jan. 3rd

CAUSA JUSTA’S TENANT RIGHTS CLINICS WILL BE CLOSED FROM DECEMBER 24TH – JANUARY 3RD. During that time, no one will be available for walk-ins. If you have an Unlawful Detainer please note that you must respond within five days to
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Victory! How Owner Move-in Reform will Affect SF Tenants

SF Examiner By Cynthia Fong, Housing Rights Committee of SF Owner move-in reform unanimously passed through the Board of Supervisors on July 18. This reform adds enforcement mechanisms to protect tenants from landlords who abuse OMI evictions and never intend
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Tell the Council to Turn the Tide & Fund Anti-Displacement Efforts to Prevent Homelessness

TONIGHT, Monday, June 26, you are invited to take a stand for justice in Oakland in a CALL TO ACTION! The ReFund Coalition is a community-labor coalition which organized to get a just budget approved in Oakland. This fair budget
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Meet Our New Summer Interns…..

KATE ORCHARD I am a student UC Santa Cruz who will be doing a field study at CJJC as part of my major, Community Studies. I organize with the fossil fuel divestment movement and am inspired to fight
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Sup. Farrell Attempts to Block Tenant-Backed OMI Measure

For Immediate Release: June 12, 2017 Housing advocates, tenants, supervisors prepare for a showdown after Supervisor tries to fast-track Apartment Association-backed proposal When: Monday, June 12, 2017 Where: Front steps of SF City Hall – Polk Street side
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Excelsior Tenant Convention

The first-ever Excelsior Tenant Convention took place June 3 with a strong community presence of folks concerned and motivated to exert their rights as renters. The day opened up with inspiring music from musician activist Francisco Herrera who sang about
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Budget for the People on Both Sides of the Bay!

Espanol sigue Come to Oakland City Council – Monday 6/12 5:30 SIGN THE PETITION and join the ReFund Oakland Community-Labor Coalition and fight to: 1. Reinvest in Housing for ALL, 2. Reinvest in Oakland’s Workers, 3. Reinvest in Public Services,
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