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Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco

$40 for 40 Years of Tenant Power and Resilience

For the last 40 years, we have been fighting for our right to stay neighbor by neighbor, building by building and neighborhood by neighborhood. Will you stand with us and help celebrate our 40th anniversary with a gift of $40 dollars?
US$3,530
raised of US$20,000 target
by 79 supporters
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Closed on 31/05/2019
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For the last 4 decades, the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco has been fighting for the right to stay neighbor by neighbor, building by building and neighborhood by neighborhood. This year, along with rent control in San Francisco, we turn 40!

We know that housing is a human right, however for too many everyday people living in one of the most expensive rental markets in the world it doesn't always feel like that. Too many tenants don't know their rights and end up leaving their homes, paying an unjust rent increase, or enduring unhealthy living conditions. Additionally, we are losing existing affordable units to speculators flipping them to luxury rentals and leaving a trail of evictions and displacement.

So many evictions are 100% preventable, and we are on the frontlines of ensuring that no one is evicted because they didn't know what their rights were.

Our counselors ensure that tenants have a highly skilled support system at their backs when they decide to fight for their rights free of cost and in 4 different languages. Our organizing works to build the power of working-class tenants and expand the rights we have to respond to the crisis and build the San Francisco we all deserve.

We have done so much in our last 40 years and are just getting started! Will you stand with us and help celebrate our 40th anniversary with a gift of $40 dollars?

Thank you for ensuring we start this new decade strong, and here's to many more years of tenant power and resilience.

About the charity

HOUSING RIGHTS COMMITTEE has fought for tenants rights since 1979, when a group of seniors at Old St. Mary’s Church came together to organize against condo conversions displacing the elderly. Here’s what we do and offer: +Free counseling for San Francisco tenants in all types of housing: rent-controlled units, SROs, public housing and Section 8, serving over 5,000 tenants a year. +Organize entire buildings to fight against displacement and evictions +Successfully change and support housing-related laws for a more fair San Francisco +Help create building and community-wide tenants groups +Coordinate, plan and mobilize protests, actions and housing justice demonstrations +Advocate for tenants in Section 8 and public housing +Sponsor workshops, community meetings and other events +Work with the Anti-Displacement Coalition, a network of tenant organizations and allies to organize against the soaring evictions and rent increases in our city We offer both call-in and drop-in counseling. Our dedicated staff of volunteer counselors are trained to help tenants identify their options for problems with evictions, illegal rent increases, repair problems, security deposit returns, and more.
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Donation summary

Total raised
US$3,530.00
Online donations
US$3,530.00
Offline donations
US$0.00
Direct donations
US$1,205.00
Donations via fundraisers
US$2,325.00

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