About The Housing Justice Collaborative

The Housing Justice Collaborative is a network of tenant-serving community organizations and legal service provider partners working together since 2020 to efficiently respond to and prevent avoidable evictions in San Diego County. Through education and outreach, rental assistance and legal services, we can keep more San Diego tenants housed.

Avoidable evictions destabilize families, harm children, perpetuate systemic inequality and increase health risks. Eviction is costly and difficult, for both tenants and landlords, and a very inefficient way to collect tenant debt. Other large urban areas have established interventions that reduce avoidable evictions and prevent more people falling into homelessness. We are working together to implement these proven strategies in San Diego.

These strategies include providing accurate tenant information through both online and in-person Know Your Rights workshops, vetted legal information and other community resources such as emergency rental assistance funding to help tenants needing help.

Mission

The Housing Justice Collaborative coordinates and expands resources and data, in order to prevent evictions and homelessness and their long-term harm.

Vision

We work toward system change that empowers tenants, expands public awareness, reduces human and public costs, and builds economic and racial justice.

Steering Committee

Legal Aid Society of San Diego

California Rural Legal Assistance

California Western Community Law Project

Disability Rights Center California

Alliance for Californians for Community Empowerment

North San Diego County National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program

University of San Diego Legal Clinic

Interested in supporting our mission?

To learn more about the Housing Justice Collaborative and the housing crisis in San Diego, email us for more information.