SUPPORTING STRATEGIES FOR AFFORDABLE HOMES
RUN San Diego is part of RUN statewide that organizes residents, resident service providers, and developers to support strategies that bring more affordable homes locally and in the state of California.
RUN’S 2023 Policy Priorities
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Would enable the Department of Housing and Community Development to implement a pilot program creating a streamlined, standard model for listing available and forthcoming affordable housing units, and for Californians to search for and apply to those units. The legislation is tied to a $40 million budget request.
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There is a clear connection between incarceration and housing insecurity and homelessness. To end homelessness we need to support the communities most at risk of falling into homelessness, like Californians exiting the prison system.
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For all individuals experiencing homelessness, public support that helps people meet basic needs are important both to prevent homelessness and to facilitate successful exits from homelessness.
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In 2013, SDHF and its partners – City Heights CDC, MAAC and Community HousingWorks – launched a campaign to educate, engage and mobilize resident leaders from affordable developments throughout the County. After completing six Resident Leader training workshops, the Resident Leaders then become advocates for housing and the other issues that most profoundly impacts the quality of life in their neighborhoods. The intent of this program is to educate and activate people throughout the county who, as residents of affordable housing, are often disengaged and dis-empowered.
We are working in sites in many of the region’s most underserved communities, including City Heights, Southeast San Diego, Escondido and Poway to recruit and develop resident leaders through our intensive Resident Leader- Popular Education curriculum that does not stop at making people aware or informed, but facilitates their becoming engaged in key issues in order to influence policy. Graduates from the program work to engage their own networks on community issues and how as residents they can exert their voice and effect change that improves their lives.
Our past graduates have gone on to become a part of Housing California's Residents United Network (RUN). Each year, with the support of SDHF and partners, San Diego's Resident Leaders have been able to join other advocates and residents from throughout the state. The leaders who attended in the past were able to lobby to their elected representatives for important upcoming affordable housing measures. Many were then able to attend Housing California's annual conference to become more informed on key affordable housing issues.
Get Involved with RUN
JOin the Virtual Community Care Call
During the months of pandemic, California RUN will be meeting virtually, on Wednesday at 1 p.m. To learn more, contact jaylene@housingsandiego.org.
Past Events
Fall rEGIONAL cONVENING
September 29, 2020
San Diego RUN had its first virtual Regional Convening to brainstorm on 2021 advocacy issues through the “There Ought to Be a Law” process!