East Bay Housing Organizations began as a series of informal, monthly brown bag lunches. Affordable housing developers, architects, advocates, city staff, and community activists gathered to discuss how to advance affordable housing in Oakland.
For our 40th Anniversary in 2024, in the spirit of the year’s theme, Powerful Legacy, Powerful Future, we launched a monthly series of virtual Lunch & Learn events, where we will learned from the past 40 years of successful advocacy to help guide us as we mobilize for future action. Now in 2025, we are excited to continue this series into a new year! This series is free and open to the public. RSVP for Zoom information.
At East Bay Housing Organizations, we believe that the people most affected by affordable housing policy should be at the forefront of the housing justice movement. We launched the Leadership Academy in 2015, after hearing from resident organizers that they wanted to learn more about housing policy and organizing skills.
Many of our Leadership Academy alumni also participate in Residents United Network (RUN), a branch of Housing California that brings together people who live in or need affordable housing and who believe every Californian deserves a safe and stable place to call home. Through our partnership with RUN, Bay Area leaders have taken powerful action to make sure that our State Representatives vote for affordable housing.
Join us on Thursday, January 23rd for our first Lunch & Learn of the year and hear from EBHO Leadership Academy staff and participants about the program, learn how to apply to join the 2025 cohort, and get involved with RUN!
