Resources Friday, August 11, 2017 | Sacramento, CA If you’d like to learn more, get engaged, and connect with others, check out these housing affordability resources developed with our partners and advisors. Have a resource to add? Post to our Facebook page! LEARN MORE Bring California Home ChangeLab Solutions Block Project Closing California’s Housing Gap How Housing Matters Living in a poor neighborhood changes everything about your life Sacramento County Renters in Crisis: A Call for Action Urban’s Guide to the Cost of Affordable Housing CONNECT Here's a list of organizations working on housing affordability issues. California Department of Fair Employment and Housing California Housing Partnership Corporation Housing California Local Government Commission Make Room USA Sacramento Area Congregations Together (ACT) Sacramento Housing Alliance Sacramento Housing Data Hub We Are Apartments A DEEPER READ Recommendations from our project partner, the Sacramento Public Library: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City – Matthew Desmond Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel – Christopher P. Dum Catching Homelessness: A Nurse’s Story of Falling Through the Safety Net – Josephine Ensign DownTown U.S.A.: A Personal Journey with the Homeless – Susan Madden Lankford The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives – Sasha Abramsky The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America – Richard Rothstein House Keys Not Handcuffs: Homeless Organizing, Art and Politics in San Francisco and Beyond – Paul Boden Want to have a conversation with youth about homelessness? Here are some book suggestions: The double life of Zoe Flynn by Janet Lee Carey (Children’s Fiction) The exact location of home by Kate Messner (Children’s Fiction) The girl in between by Sarah Carroll (Teen Fiction) Homelessness and families by H. W. Poole (Teen Non-Fiction) No place by Todd Strasser (Teen Fiction) The secret life of Lincoln Jones by Wendelin Van Draanen (Children’s Fiction) Still a family by Brenda Reeves Sturgis (Picture Book) Yard sale by Eve Bunting (Picture Book)
