This resource is designed to be used by social justice advocates—including attorneys and community organizers—working with unhoused people and people with criminal legal system involvement towards housing justice in California.
Housing
California Voting Rights for Unhoused People and People with Criminal Records
This resource provides an overview of the voting rights of Californians who are unhoused and/or have criminal records.
Desperate Impact: On The Future of Disparities in Anti-discrimination Law (Part 1)
Part 1 of this 3 part series will give an overview of pre-Trump II federal policy on disparate impact analysis in employment and housing discrimination law and how that form of analysis bears on the rights and interests of persons with records of arrest or criminal conviction.
Desperate Impact: On The Future of Disparities in Anti-discrimination Law (Part 2)—Criminal Records and Housing Discrimination
Part 2 of this 3 part series will address changes to federal housing anti-discrimination policy as it bears on persons with arrest and conviction histories
BROKEN — LSPC’s Public Comment on HUD’s Implementation of the Fair Housing Act’s Disparate Impact Standard, Docket No. FR–6540–P–01, RIN 2529–AB09
LSPC co-authored this written public comment in response to new regulations from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
LSPC Fair Chance Housing & Beyond Webinar
Housing is a basic need! So why is it so hard to have, especially when you’re formerly incarcerated or have a convict history? This webinar is called “Fair Chance and Beyond?, Public Policy and Constitutional Aspects of Housing Market Regulation to Protect the Rights of Persons with Arrest and Conviction Records.” Panelists include: Margaretta Wan-Ling Lin is a Lecturer and Project Scientist at UC Berkeley, focusing on racial justice and healing in planning and public policy, and she serves as Executive Director of Just Cities. Xavier Johnson is Director of Policy Justice at the Just Cities Institute where he works on Fair Chance Housing policies, re-entry policy, and housing more broadly. Xavier is also a Commissioner on the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board. Eric Craig Sapp is a Staff Attorney at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children.
