All Parks Alliance For Change - Programs

Programs

APAC members work with a full-time professional staff to develop and provide the following programs:

  • Resident Education – In English and Spanish, APAC offers a statewide, toll-free resident hotline (866-361-APAC), conducts educational workshops, and produces consumer guides.
  • Leadership Development – APAC works with homeowners to form resident associations and conduct leadership trainings.
  • Community Organizing – APAC works with homeowners to respond to management practices, rent increases, housing discrimination, homeowner displacement, and other issues.
  • Community Preservation – APAC works with residents at-risk of displacement to preserve their communities through a purchase by a nonprofit, land trust, or co-op developer.
  • Legal Advocacy – APAC provides legal representation for residents, including filing tenant remedies actions for communities facing unsafe or unhealthy conditions.
  • Public Policy Work – APAC works with residents to advance local and state policy changes.
  • Racial Justice – APAC has documented and is responding to enormous disparities in resident treatment based on a person's race, including differential treatment and conditions, residency denial, and steering practices.
  • National Resident Organizing – APAC began a national resident organizing project to promote resident leadership, organizing and advocacy in other states and on a national level.

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