This fact sheet was created in partnership with Filipino Advocates for Justice and RISE to support their work to advance policies that protect renters. Key findings include:

• Renters are an important and growing constituency in Union City, but 51 percent of them pay too much for housing.
• Rent affordability is a racial equity issue: people of color face the steepest rent burdens.
• Renters have experienced a 15 percent increase in median rent and a 69 percent increase in households that are rent burdened since 2000.

Find Filipino Advocates for Justice renters' rights campaign updates here.

This fact sheet was created in partnership with Fremont RISE to support their work to advance policies that protect renters. Key findings include:

• Renters are an important and growing constituency in Fremont, but 41 percent of them pay too much for housing. 
• Rent affordability is a racial equity issue: Black renters face the steepest rent burdens.
• Renters have experienced a 12 percent increase in median rent and a 29 percent increase in households that are rent burdened since 2000. 

Find Fremont RISE renters' rights campaign updates here. 

This fact sheet was created in partnership with The Hayward Collective to support their work to advance policies that protect renters. Key findings include:

• Renters are an important and growing constituency in Hayward, but 57 percent of them pay too much for housing.
• Rent affordability is a racial equity issue: people of color face the steepest rent burdens.
• Renters have experienced a 10 increase in median rent and a 29 percent increase in households that are rent burdened since 2000.

Find the Hayward Collective renters' rights campaign updates here.

On March 5, the Hayward City Council voted unanimously to extend the city’s just cause protections, which applied only to renters living in buildings constructed prior to 1979, to all tenants.

This fact sheet was created in partnership with Working Partnerships USA to support their work to advance policies that protect renters. Key findings include:

• Renters are an important and growing constituency in San José, but 53 percent of them pay too much for housing.
• Rent affordability is a racial equity issue: women of color face the steepest rent burdens.
• If San José renters were not rent-burdened, they would have an additional $8,500 per household to spend on other household needs and in the local economy.
• There is not a single neighborhood in San José where market rents are affordable to a family of two minimum-wage earners.

Find Working Partnerhips USA's renters' rights campaign updates here.