Each May, East Bay Housing Organizations joins our partners across the Bay Area to host Affordable Housing Month.
Affordable Housing Month is an opportunity to come together to build support for affordable housing and racial justice and educate our communities on how affordable housing benefits us all.
Continuing last year’s 40th Anniversary theme, “Powerful Legacy, Powerful Future”, we are excited to share lessons learned from leaders who came before us and look ahead to the future of housing justice in the East Bay and beyond.
Events Calendar
We are excited to release our 2025 Affordable Housing Month calendar of events!
Last year, a record-setting 30 events were held throughout the month of May. Now, we are thrilled to announce that EBHO will be partnering with our incredible member organizations to host another 30 Affordable Housing Month events this year!
Events take place across the East Bay and range from resident panel discussions, groundbreakings and grand openings, film screenings, and more! Educational webinars cover topics such as affordable housing finance, housing elements, building green housing, and faith-based organizing for affordable housing.
Thanks to our generous funding partners and Affordable Housing Month Sponsors, most Affordable Housing Month events are free and open to the public.
Check out some of last year’s Affordable Housing Month Events!
Affordable Housing Month Kickoff Celebration
Our annual Kickoff Celebration is our biggest event of the year. Join us on Wednesday, May 7th in Oakland for a night of food, drinks, dancing, networking with others interested in creating a better East Bay, and honoring several of our Affordable Housing Heroes.
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Venue: The Overlook at Port Workspaces, 344 20th St, Oakland, CA 94612
Online ticket sales are now closed, but you can still purchase your tickets at the door!
EBHO Staff and Resident Community Organizing Program (RCOP) Members, and our friends from Northern California Land Trust (NCLT) and Supportive Housing Community Land Alliance (SHCLA) at last year’s Kickoff Celebration!
Our 2025 Affordable Housing Heroes
EBHO is excited to announce our 2025 Housing Heroes—The San Francisco Foundation and Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Marquez! We also take this moment to honor the legacy of our beloved housing heroes who are no longer with us—Rev. Phil Lawson, Ms. Francine Williams, and Ms. Melody Parker—whose contributions have made lasting impacts on the housing justice movement.
Learn more about our amazing honorees.
Thank you to our Affordable Housing Month Sponsors!
Advertise in the Study Room
The Study Room is an online learning portal with information about how the affordable housing crisis came to be and how we can solve it.
Each May during Affordable Housing Month, EBHO relaunches our Study Room and adds exciting new content. With this relaunch, we welcome a new batch of advertisers, whose advertisements will be shown to over 6,000 engaged readers from May 1st, 2025, through April 30th, 2026.
The deadline to purchase an advertisement is Friday, April 18th.
Thank you to our funding partners!
