by Kieran Tran, Healthy Homes Organizer | Apr 23, 2026 | Blog, Climate Resilience, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
Healthy Homes Together, APEN, our members, and working-class immigrant and refugee families across California have been fighting for quality, affordable, and healthy housing for all. APEN’s Healthy Homes advocacy is rooted in our vision of strong, sustainable local...
by Diana Chan | Jun 6, 2022 | Blog, Climate Resilience, Oakland, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
Chinatown is so important. Photo courtesy of Jonathan Fong and Friends of Lincoln Square Park. For Chinese immigrant families in Oakland like mine, Chinatown is so important. Most seniors in our community don’t speak English, and Chinatown is the only place we can...
by TEAM APEN | Sep 17, 2021 | Oakland, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
All of us deserve to walk down the street without looking over our shoulders for fear of being attacked – to go to work, drop off our kids at school, get groceries, and gather with friends without fear of being assaulted or worse. Earlier this year, after...
by Clio | Feb 24, 2021 | Climate Resilience, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Statewide, Stories
Public Banks for Clean Energy and a Just Transition Principled Partnerships for a Just Transition: How Public Banks Can Finance Clean Energy Upgrades for Low-Income Renters In 2019, California became the third state to authorize the establishment of Public Banks. The...
by TEAM APEN | Sep 18, 2020 | Media, Richmond, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
Richmond Pulse: They Lost Their Homes to War. Now, Richmond Laotians Fear Being Pushed Out Again. “I interviewed some people who said they would move, but they wouldn’t be comfortable because Richmond is home,” said Brandy Khansouvong, holding a piece of traditional...
by Marie Choi | Aug 13, 2020 | Richmond, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
Over the past year, APEN member leaders Brandy Khansouvong and Sary Tatpaporn interviewed Laotian Americans in Richmond through the RichmondLAND Building Power Fellowship. Richmond is Home: Preventing a Second Displacement of Laotian Americans documents their...
