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How to Develop a Community Housing Vision for Puerto Rico

Posted on October 22, 2025

By Alison Chopel et al. from Nonprofit Quarterly Continue Reading

Man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes

Posted on October 3, 2025

By Natalie Orenstein from Oaklandside Excerpt: “The only reason why businesses like this could exist,” said Tobias Damm-Luhr, staff attorney at the Sustainable Economies Law Center, is because “people hoard land and housing. They create these artificial scarcities such that people who don’t have a home or any other option are forced... Continue Reading

Community Over Chaos Recap and Resources

Posted on September 16, 2025

We reached our fundraising goal! More than 100 members of our community donated to Sustainable Economies Law Center during our August grassroots campaign! We raised just over $28,000 to support our work this year! IMAGE ID: A collage of Law Center staff and community members in playful and joyful poses,... Continue Reading

Celebrating the HERstoric Liberation Easement on Homefulness 1

Posted on September 5, 2025

Earlier in August, my coworkers and I at the Sustainable Economies Law Center (the Law Center) had the opportunity to witness and celebrate the spiritual and legal unselling of Homefulness 1 through the signing of a first-of-its-kind liberation easement between POOR Magazine (the legal owner of Homefulness 1) and the... Continue Reading

Housing Choice for All Act

Posted on August 23, 2025

🚨 BIG NEWS: California could finally legalize communal living! 🚨 The Housing Choice for All Act is here! A bold statewide proposal to remove outdated zoning restrictions that punish people for how they live and who they live with. This legislation would end legal discrimination against non-family households, shared housing,... Continue Reading

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