For residents
We all want the same things.
A home you can afford. A future for your kids in the town where they are growing up. A say in what gets built around you. A system that builds it. No corner of California has all four today.
If you hold office, build, lend, operate affordable housing, or do research, your page is Work with us.
What we’re for
Homes we can afford.
Starter homes at starter prices, family homes a teacher or a nurse can buy in the town where they work, and a path from renting to owning again.
Opportunity where you live.
When new homes are built, the schools, parks and streets are built with them, paid for rather than promised, and investment comes first to the neighborhoods that have waited longest for it.
Homes that get built.
Clear rules, quick approval for anything that fits the plan, and economics that make the right homes in the right places profitable to build.
A voice.
You are part of making the plan for where and how your community grows, and once that plan is adopted, it is what gets built.
These are the four tests, written for a kitchen table instead of a committee room. Over there, each one comes with a measure, so that any housing proposal can be scored against them.
On the coast, the plan gets overridden. In the valley, growth arrives without its schools and streets. The complaints sound opposite, and they come out of one law.
How this works
Your group already exists
The neighborhood association, the parents' group, the civic club: we don't replace it, charter it, or ask it to join anything. We connect it to the groups asking the same questions two towns over, and we send what matters when it matters.
What we will ask of you is specific. Read the pieces of each revision that touch your neighborhood and tell us what they get wrong, because the homes a proposal counts should be the ones your neighborhood is missing. When a bill is in print, tell your council member and your Assembly member what it would do where you live.
If something is happening in your city right now, the Stewards Handbook is our free guide to how housing gets approved in California and how to participate effectively. It is about twenty-five pages, and it will save you months.
For residents
Tell us what is happening where you live
A project that doesn't fit, a neighborhood still waiting on its schools and streets, an association ready to plug in, or simply that you want to help. Where a group is already working on the same thing, we'll connect you.
Thanks. We reply within a week.