Ensuring Opportunity
The Campaign to End Poverty in Contra Costa County
Category: 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’…
Read MoreHousing 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…
Read MoreAct Today! Our Health Care is at Risk, Again
The new legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will mean millions of Americans may lose their coverage. Medicaid coverage for seniors, children, adults, and people with disabilities will be cut and capped, and people with pre-existing…
Read MoreJoin us on September 23 in Antioch
Housing Town Hall – Join us! September 23 at 10 AM at Grace Bible Fellowship of…
Read MoreContra Costa Housing Update and Call to Action
In this post: Upcoming Contra Costa Housing Town Halls – save the date(s)! Call to Action: Contact your state legislators today about SB 2 and SB 3 Regional housing webinar on Sept. 15 HOUSING TOWN HALLS – SAVE THE DATE!…
Read MoreCall to Action: Support SB 2 and AB 71
Thank you to all of you who attended Ensuring Opportunity’s Contra Costa Housing Forum earlier this week. As you heard, Tuesday’s convening was just the start of a much broader affordable housing strategy for Contra Costa. Whether or not you…
Read MoreEnsuring Opportunity Campaign Endorses SB 54 and Local Sanctuary Policies
Ensuring Opportunity Campaign has heard from many partners that the national immigration policy changes are causing many Contra Costa residents to withdraw from the community and to live in fear. These federal actions threaten the safety of local children and…
Read MoreContra Costa Health Care Town Hall: Saturday, February 4, 2017 in Bay Point
We will be hosting a second town hall THIS SATURDAY, February 4th 2017 at the Restoration Church in Bay Point from 10am to 12pm. Join us for another important discussion about defending health care as a human right with Rep….
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