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Community-Owned Homes: How COPA/TOPA Counters Housing Corporatization – Recording

Private equity and venture capital-backed companies are buying up homes at a mass scale and renting them out to the very people whom they have priced out of the market. Tech is enabling this emerging class of corporate landlords, allowing them to rapidly scale by automating property management, home flipping,… Read More

Contract Worker Poll

Participation in the poll will help inform TechEquity’s advocacy agenda and will not be shared with anyone outside the organization without your express permission. Providing your name and contact information is optional but will allow our staff to follow up with you with campaign updates should you wish to receive… Read More

Community-Owned Homes – How COPA/TOPA Counters Housing Corporatization

Private equity and venture capital-backed companies are buying up homes at a mass scale and renting them out to the very people whom they have priced out of the market. Tech is enabling this emerging class of corporate landlords, allowing them to rapidly scale by automating property management, home… Read More

Thank You – Tech, Bias, and Housing Initiative

Thank you for signing up for updates on the Tech, Bias, and Housing Initiative! We’ll reach out with updates soon. You can get started by signing up for our next event, checking out our… Read More

Maria Noel Fernandez

Maria Noel Fernandez is the Executive Director of Working Partnerships. Maria Noel brings over a decade of organizing experience to the movement for a just economy in which all working people have what they need to thrive. As Executive Director of Working Partnerships USA, she oversees multiple campaigns and initiatives… Read More

Roberto Clack

Roberto Clack is the Executive Director of Temp Worker Justice. Roberto has spent time organizing in the housing, peace, and labor movements. As part of his work in the peace movement, Roberto helped organize Iraq Veterans Against War’s (IVAW) Winter Soldier event in 2008 and IVAW’s NATO Ceremony in 2012. Read More

Leah Simon-Weisberg

Leah Simon-Weisberg is an expert and statewide leader on rent control, landlord-tenant law, and anti-displacement policy. She is presently the Legal Director for Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE.) She represented Moms 4 Housing in court, fighting for their right to live in an empty corporate-owned home on the… Read More

Michael Akinwumi

Michael Akinwumi leads the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA)’s Tech Equity Initiative. The Tech Equity Initiative (TEI) is a multi-faceted effort launched by NFHA to increase the fairness of and reshape the design of algorithmic systems in the housing and financial services industries. Conducting research to advance the AI fairness… Read More