LA Voice

Movement building: through our power campaign last year, La Voice leaders identified their top issues: affordable housing, homelessness, and financial stability. Together with the pico California network, we created the home is sacred campaign and championed three key bills: sb 567, sb 4 and ab 1418 all of which passed! Through these bills we strengthened no-fault eviction protections, enabled faith communities to build affordable housing on their lands, and protected people who have been incarcerated from discrimination.

Faith in housing: through our faith in housing program, La Voice has been influential in creating momentum for building affordable housing on faith-owned land. La Voice staff and partners: identify and lead interested congregations through the discernment process; connect them to developers; organize to remove zoning barriers; and provide guidance on the way to revitalize communities and build affordable housing for neighbors. With the passage of sb 4 (affordable housing on faith lands act), faith in housing expanded its clergy cohorts statewide to act as a model for others.

Grassroots leadership development: in 2023, La Voice worked with leaders to equip them in developing the skills needed to organize. This resulted in training 1,288 grassroots leaders, providing education to 2,851 community members on civic engagement, developing 15 new congregation-based teams, hosting three leadership assemblies, hosting a large public action, guiding 28 congregations to become 100% voting congregations, and launching a youth cohort focused on developing young leaders ages 15 to 23.