Ensuring Opportunity
The Campaign to End Poverty in Contra Costa County
Contra Costa Housing Summit 2018
Thank you to all of you who attended Ensuring Opportunity’s Contra Costa Housing Summit on March 26. Sign up for our email list to receive updates on our work and opportunities for immediate and continued engagement at the state, regional…
Overview
The Ensuring Opportunity Campaign is a collaborative effort to end poverty in Contra Costa County by addressing structural causes at the policy level. We believe direct services are essential to addressing the impact of poverty but that services alone are not enough to…
Join Us!
It is time for Contra Costa County communities to unite to ensure a just, vibrant, and compassionate quality of life for all of our residents. Ending poverty in Contra Costa can only happen when we take action! Join…
Ensuring Opportunity Updates
AB 1506: Costa-Hawkins Repeal Bill
Tomorrow morning (Thursday), the state bill to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act will be heard in the Assembly’s Housing and Community Development Committee. Ensuring Opportunity Campaign strongly supports the repeal of Costa-Hawkins because the current law overly limits cities’…
Housing Town Hall Findings
Residents speak up: more affordable options, housing with services, tenant protections urgently needed More than 150 residents, elected officials, housing developers and advocates came together in five separate Housing Town Halls this fall, co-sponsored by Ensuring Opportunity and the Multi-Faith…
What – and whom – should our next District Attorney stand for?
What – and whom – should our next District Attorney stand for? The county’s choice of a new District Attorney can help end local poverty … or make it worse By Mariana Moore Ensuring Opportunity Campaign Director Following the resignation…
Ensuring Opportunity Blog: Aligning our advocacy work with our values
By Zuleika Godinez, Ensuring Opportunity Campaign I recently attended the national YIMBYTown conference in Oakland to learn more about what policies Yes In My Back Yard (YIMBY) housing advocates are supporting. While I learned lots of useful information about the housing…
Ensuring Opportunity Blog: Fact: The solution to homelessness is housing
By Lavonna Martin, MPH, MPA, guest contributor The ways in which communities across the country have addressed the complexity of homelessness over the past few decades is indeed varied, with mixed outcomes. In my more than twenty years of working…
