{"id":678,"date":"2016-02-22T11:16:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=678"},"modified":"2016-02-26T11:30:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:30:37","slug":"housing-for-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Housing for the Rest of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Introducing the Berkeley Progressive Alliance and their\u00a0Affordable Housing Platform<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, March 6th, 2 to 4:30 pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> South Berkeley Senior Center, 2939 Ellis Street at Ashby<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nigelguest.com\/bcatemp.org.nigelguest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Oxford-Plaza-downtown-Berkeley.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-679\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-679\" src=\"https:\/\/nigelguest.com\/bcatemp.org.nigelguest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Oxford-Plaza-downtown-Berkeley-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Oxford Plaza downtown Berkeley\" width=\"464\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Oxford-Plaza-downtown-Berkeley-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Oxford-Plaza-downtown-Berkeley-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Oxford-Plaza-downtown-Berkeley-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Oxford-Plaza-downtown-Berkeley-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Oxford-Plaza-downtown-Berkeley.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oxford Plaza, energy efficient affordable housing built in 2009 at a comfortable scale. Since 2009, almost no affordable housing has been built, for lack of committed funding for the Berkeley Housing Trust Fund<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solve the\u00a0Affordable Housing Crisis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Berkeley could build a hundred units of affordable housing a year, if we raise funds for the Housing Trust Fund. Hear about practical solutions that will raise the money needed. Prepare for the 2016 Election by making plans to elect a mayor, city council members, and rent board commissioners who will represent all of us, not just the 1%.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Max Anderson \u2010 Berkeley City Councilmember District 3 (South Berkeley)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ben Bartlett \u2010 member, Berkeley Planning Commission and District 3 City Council candidate<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kate Harrison, Berkeley Progressive Alliance and National State Politics chair of the\u00a0Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Refreshments and childcare provided (RSVP for childcare to:<a href=\"mailto:papermasterc@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">papermasterc@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Sponsored by: Berkeley Progressive Alliance, Berkeley Citizens Action, Better Berkeley Working Group, Berkeley Tenants Union, and Grassroots House<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"h\u200bttp:\/\/berkeleyprogressivealliance.org\/\">h\u200bttp:\/\/berkeleyprogressivealliance.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Address: PO Box 2961, Berkeley, CA 94702<\/p>\n<p>Email: b\u200berkeleyprogressivealliance@gmail.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing the Berkeley Progressive Alliance and their\u00a0Affordable Housing Platform Sunday, March 6th, 2 to 4:30 pm South Berkeley Senior Center, 2939 Ellis Street at Ashby Oxford Plaza, energy efficient affordable housing built in 2009 at a comfortable scale. Since 2009, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=678\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Housing for the Rest of Us<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}