BeginsWithHome

Our future begins with us, and a thriving Bay Area begins with home. 🏘️✨ #AffordableHousingMonth is here — and it's our time to think big and imagine a Bay Area where every person has a safe place to call home. Join us: beginswithhome.org/affordablehous…

🎃👻 Halloween costume ideas for when you want to be truly terrifying: Affordable Housing Villains Edition. These villains may seem spooky, but our movement is stronger than all of them combined because the majority of people in the Bay Area support housing solutions.

For years, Maria's family relied on employer-provided housing. But when her husband lost his job, they were left without a home. Now, she's sharing her story and teaming up with @PuentePescadero to fight for the housing immigrant farmworkers deserve. 🌻

“I keep fighting for housing justice because I know we can win it.” Edie, a Homelessness Solutions Advocate for @allhomeca, sees solutions working every day to make the Bay Area more livable and affordable. Let’s make them work for even more people! 🏡 #HousingForAll

Maria's journey from homelessness to hope began with a phone call to @StMarysOak. Now, she has her own affordable home and a community supporting her every step of the way. This is her story ⬇️

We caught a conversation on national TV last night about how housing is currently treated as a commodity in our country. But what if we started treating housing as the basic need that it is? 🤔 We can rewrite the rules if we come together. The time to #decommodifyhousing is NOW.

Watch James’ inspiring story about how permanent supportive housing gave him back his dignity and safety after homelessness. Thanks to @midpenhousing, he’s now thriving at 79! 🌟

Watch Solomon’s inspiring story about how permanent supportive housing changed his life after 16 years of homelessness. Thanks to @ECS_SF, he’s found stability, health, and hope for the future. 🌟 #SupportiveHousing

Thanks to @SF_CLT for keeping families in their homes ❤️

Watch this inspiring story about a San Francisco family who found stability through a Community Land Trust! 🌟 Their home was saved from speculators, ensuring long-term security.

nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy” you were - how many hours you worked people will remember: - if you cared for all of your neighbors - if you took action to end homelessness and displacement - if you helped make the Bay Area a place where everyone belongs

🏘️ ICYMI: Rising housing costs have now entered the presidential race. Housing affordability is a top national issue, and here in the Bay Area, we’re struggling, but we know local change can be the most impactful. Are you in? beginswithhome.org

Want to be part of the change? Sign the pledge to make homes for all a reality in the Bay Area: beginswithhome.org/actions/ Together, we can create a future where everyone has a place to thrive. 💕

Bay Area, we're on a mission! 🏘️✨ Our community is spreading hope and rallying around a call for housing that works for everyone. 💪

That affordable future feeling 🏅 Let’s change the story of what’s possible if we make sure everyone has a place to call home. Join us: beginswithhome.org

Read more: kqed.org/news/11996229/…

Berkeley is now considering a bold new move: legalizing small apartment buildings citywide! This shift would've been unthinkable just a few years ago, but with the current state of unaffordable housing and rising homelessness, residents are ready for a new future. [2/3]

100 years ago, Berkeley became the first city to establish single-family neighborhoods – an exclusionary policy that emerged as a way to keep people of color out of white neighborhoods across the US. But times are changing. [1/3] kqed.org/news/11996229/…

🚫 Have you been hearing about the CA Governor’s recent Executive Order to dismantle homeless encampments? What about the #SCOTUS ruling that gives cities permission to fine people for sleeping outside? Here’s why we need #SolutionsNotSweeps in the Bay Area.

What we should do instead is build more affordable homes, preserve existing affordable housing, keep people housed, and prevent homelessness before it happens. #solutionsnotsweeps Join us and be part of the solution beginswithhome.org [4/4]

What these policies fail to do is solve homelessness. Sweeps and fines only make homelessness harder to solve and worsen difficult situations for our neighbors in the Bay Area who are struggling the most. [3/4]

This executive order follows a recent US Supreme Court ruling allowing cities to fine or arrest those pushed into homelessness for simply sleeping outside. [2/4]

ICYMI: Governor Gavin Newsom issued an Executive Order to dismantle homeless encampments, which are often the only safe places for unhoused individuals to sleep and keep their belongings. [1/4]