PBF Playbook
After five years of producing and preserving thousands of homes and passing numerous policies, PBF has developed a Playbook to share its lessons learned and guide other communities aiming to replicate this success. It provides adaptable strategies for creating meaningful cross-sector collaboration, driving community-centered policy solutions, and leveraging innovative financial tools.
Housing Readiness Report
Find out if your city is ready to tackle the housing affordability crisis with the Housing Readiness Report. Get the resources and data to track, monitor, and get involved in your city’s housing plans and policies to ensure equitable racial and economic outcomes.
Community-Driven Housing Innovations
Explore groundbreaking housing strategies with two publications: a white paper on leveraging undeveloped faith-owned land to develop supportive housing, and a roadmap for community-driven policymaking. These resources provide practical and scalable solutions for those seeking transformative frameworks applicable to their own housing challenges.
Emergency Interim Housing Report
Emergency Interim Housing (EIH) is a promising model being deployed by homeless response systems across the nation. This report highlights some of the considerations homeless response systems, service providers, and communities should consider when building or expanding EIH.
Opportunity to Purchase Campaign Playbook
One critical solution to strengthen our communities and protect tenants from losing their homes is the Opportunity to Purchase Act, which is designed to give tenants a shot at owning their homes when the current owner is ready to sell. This playbook provides the building blocks and insights about what it takes to run a successful campaign.
Reports on How Community-Government Partnerships Advance Equitable Housing Policies
We explore and evaluate the policy pursuits of seven local governments and their community partners to preserve affordable housing and protect tenants. This report showcases the power of collaboration, centering community, and innovative approaches towards developing equitable housing policies.
Reports on How Affordable Housing Loan Funds Further Equity
We are proud to have preserved or produced over 3,200 units of affordable housing in our first three years and have learned so much along the way. These reports highlight the impact data we collected on the housing deals closed so far, share case studies, and take a look into the future.
Shift the Bay – Advancing Housing and Racial Justice
Research-driven and field-practiced strategies, tactics, and messages that can help us grow public support and political will, that can change hearts and minds, and seize this powerful moment to drive new narratives for our movement.
Evictorbook
Evictorbook is a tool to support housing organizers and tenants in researching properties, landlords, and the webs of corporate ownership behind them. The site identifies serial evictors, their shell companies, properties in their portfolio, and suspicious eviction patterns. The tool is currently active for Oakland and San Francisco with plans to expand to other cities in the Bay Area.
Tenant Power Toolkit
The Tenant Power Toolkit is a platform that provides tools to help individuals combat evictions and address rent debt, linking tenants with legal resources and tenants’ rights groups. Its housing justice work informs collective action campaigns and public policy.
Bay Area Equity Atlas
The Bay Area Equity Atlas is a comprehensive data support system to track the state of equity across the region and equip community leaders with data to inform solutions for inclusive prosperity.
Bay Area Recovery Dollars Tracker
Get the full picture of how the Bay Area used federal COVID recovery dollars to support communities of color that have been the most harmed by the pandemic, and what our elected leaders must do now to ensure the resilient equitable future that people in our region and state deserve.
Five Ways Funders Can Catalyze Affordable Housing Preservation
This issue brief explores preservation as a strategy to achieve housing equity goals, especially when rooted in community ownership models. It also highlights the impact funders can have on the preservation ecosystem, by funding urgent community needs, while providing the patient investment needed to build long-term systems grounded in racial equity.
