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Multi-faith Action Coalition
Multi-faith ACTION Coalition: Advocates & Communities Taking Initiative for Our Neighbors
We are a multi-faith coalition of Contra Costa County residents working together to address the root causes of poverty through advocacy and public policy change.
One of our Contra Costa partners is Ensuring Opportunity, the campaign to end poverty in Contra Costa County. They work hard to encourage Contra Costa County communities to unite to ensure a just, vibrant, and compassionate quality of life for all of our residents. Click the link to learn more about them.
Ensuring Opportunity - RCF Connects - Richmond Community Foundation
rcfconnects.org
Ensuring Opportunity Campaign to End Poverty in Contra Costa's goal is to end economic disparity by addressing the root causes of poverty and systemic racism through policy change.
The City of Concord is reviewing higher-density zoning overlays for specific properties to support housing affordability in Concord. The Planning Commission will take up this topic at its November 19 meeting. Many faith traditions support affordable housing as integral to the common good. ![]()
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Concord’s work is part of Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH), a state-mandated program that promotes affordability in California by increasing the supply of affordable housing in high-opportunity areas. This has been linked to better long-term outcomes for residents. ![]()
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For more information, click the link.
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rezoning Project | Concord, CA
www.cityofconcord.org
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing
Medical debt is one of the major drivers of poverty in this country. County officials estimate that federal budget cuts enacted over the summer will result in more than 100,000 people losing healthcare in Contra Costa County alone. For full information on how federal cuts would affect Medi-Cal (the CA version of Medicaid), read here.
www.chcf.org
H.R. 1 cuts $30 billion a year from Medi-Cal, reducing access, increasing costs, and threatening hospitals and vulnerable patients.
Deep cuts to federal funds for permanent housing could have a negative impact on homelessness in California. Like other changes on the federal level, this is another example of policy changes that can increase poverty rather than reduce it. ![]()
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Our Housing and Shelter Task Force keeps track of local work to improve housing availability. Send us a message if you’d like to know more. ![]()
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See the first comment for further details on this topic from CalMatters.![]()
California braces for ‘devastating’ expected cuts to federal homeless housing funds
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Thousands of Californians could return to homelessness as the feds reportedly plan to disinvest from permanent housing.
Food Insecurity is one of the primary dimensions of poverty, and California is bracing for a new food security crisis. Agencies at all levels are working to bring contingency plans online. Read more here from CalMatters.![]()
CA braces for unprecedented food stamp shortfall due to feds
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As millions of low-income Californians — most of whom are children and senior citizens — brace for the absence of federal food benefits starting Saturday, local officials, schools and organization...