ICYMI, we have a new collective staff member! Annie McShiras joined us as our new Investment and Fundraising Director to help us figure out how to redistribute millions of dollars to repair the harms of the racist real estate sector.

Got lunch plans today?

TODAY! | Oct 20th | 12:00PM PDT | Have you been meaning to catch one of our orientations to learn about our unique model? Today's the day! Join us at lunch time to meet our staff and get all of your questions answered. RSVP here.

Other Events

OCTOBER is National Cooperative Month! Join one of our events below to celebrate!

Community Owner Circle (Members Only) | Wed Oct 21 | 6:00 PM PDT | We’re so excited to finally re-launch the EB PREC Community Owner Circle, a space to connect with one another, build relationships, and to start to imagine what projects we can embark on together to strengthen our community. We’ll have facilitated breakout groups to ensure an interactive and inclusive session! Check out the agenda and RSVP here. 

The History of Land Grabs & How to Fight Back | Thurs Oct 29 | 12:30PM PDT | Join our E.D. Noni Session in a panel and fishbowl discussion hosted by the Sustainable Economies Law Center about the history of land grabs and how we’re all fighting back. Other speakers include Corrina Gould from Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, Alvina Wong from APEN, A-Dae Romero-Briones from First Nations Development Institute, and so many more amazing folks fighting for land and housing justice!

Good Reads (and videos, and podcasts, and more!)

Novel | The Night Watchmen by Louise Erdrich | After commemorating Indigenous People’s Day and right before Thankstaking, you might want to read this magical realist novel based on the author’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against the 1953 “emancipation” bill that threatened the rights of Native Americans to their land. This book is jam-packed with mystery, history, and even signature gatherers.

Video | Debt: The First 5,000 Years, a lecture by David Graeber | This is a video of the late David Graeber (rest in power!) speaking at the University of Birmingham as part of the Birmingham Research Institute of History and Cultures’ interdisciplinary conference ‘Debt: 5000 years and counting.”

Book | Can’t Pay Won’t Pay by the Debt Collective | Brought to you by the Debt Collective (a debtor’s union that successfully erased $32 million in medical and student debt!), this book can help us ensure that no one has to mortgage their future to survive. 

News | Gov Newsom Signed SB 1079! | We signed in support of this bill that now has become law! SB 1079, which was inspired by the direct action of the Oakland group Moms 4 Housing, prevents corporations from snapping up bundles of homes during foreclosure auctions. Instead, it gives tenants, cooperatives, and families an opportunity to buy them individually. 

Listen | Democracy Now! Philly Activists Reclaim 50 Vacant Houses, Creating a Model for Organizing as Mass Evictions Loom | Organizer Keeange-Yamahtta Taylor talks about the movement in Philadelphia that has established “a model for what all tenant organizing and activist groups should be taking up, which is occupy the space, occupy the properties and put political pressure on public housing authorities to do their job and house people that are unhoused.”