TechEquity Collaborative | Working Towards a Bay Area for Everyone

Our tech-driven economy can and should create opportunity for everyone. We’re mobilizing tech workers to make our communities more equitable places to live.

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Housing

We are experiencing an unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis. We enact systemic policy change in three areas: production, protection. and preservation.

Workforce & Labor

From automation to the gig economy, technology and the tech industry are changing the nature of work. We advance public and corporate policy that ensures everyone has access to good jobs.

Housing Legislation

We're co-sponsoring and endorsing three key bills that will protect tenants and build more affordable housing.

Schools and Communities First

We're working in coalition with hundreds of organizations across California to reclaim $12 billion per year to fund our schools and local communities.

Fair Chance to Housing Campaign

We're working with Just Cities to prevent landlords from discriminating in rental housing applications in Alameda County and to give residents a fair change to accessing housing.

Tenant Protections Act of 2019

Last year we passed the biggest tenant protections policy in the country, protecting 8 million California renters from unfair rent hikes and unjust evictions. Now we're ensuring people know their rights.

Responsible Contracting Project

Every worker deserves a family-supporting job and dignified working conditions. We’re working with Silicon Valley Rising to ensure service workers on tech campuses have just that.

System Reset

We believe tech companies have the unique ability to create opportunities for those who have been previously shut out—workers who have a conviction history.

6 Ways that Proposition 13 Sucks

Prop 13 — it’s the policy that all wonks love to hate, including me. The effects of Prop 13 are far reaching, and the consequences of this devastating policy are still being felt, forty years after its implementation. Read on to learn more about some of the lesser known consequences of the policy:

Why is the rent so damn high?

We hosted a panel to answer the question: why is it so expensive to build a unit of housing in the Bay Area? It’s a surprisingly complicated question, but the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC-Berkeley has been doing really great work trying to get to the bottom of it.