Housing Policies
A law that limits how much landlords can raise rent, so it stays affordable for tenants.
What is Rent Control?
The money people pay every month to live in a house or apartment that they don’t own.
What is Rent?
How much money people need for basic things like rent, food, and transportation in a certain place.
What is Cost of Living?
Its mission is to strengthen the community by offering food assistance, nutrition and health education, job training, and hope to those facing emergencies.
What is the Emergency Food Bank?
When a person doesn’t have a stable or safe place to live.
What is Homelessness?
A suggested law that people vote on during an election.
What is a Proposition?
A person who rents and lives in a house or apartment owned by someone else.
What is a Tenant?
A warning from a landlord telling a tenant they must move out of their home, usually for not paying rent or breaking the rules.
What is an Eviction Notice?
The largest emergency shelter in San Joaquin County, they provide a safe place to stay, meals, clothing, and hygiene essentials for around 320 people daily.
Who is the Stockton Shelter for the Homeless?
Making sure everyone has a safe, affordable, and fair place to live, no matter their income, race, or background.
What is Housing Injustice?
A tax that homeowners must pay to the government based on how much their home is worth.
What is Property Tax?
A person or company that owns a house or apartment and rents it to people.
What is a Landlord?
A basic idea in economics: If a lot of people want something but there isn’t much of it, the price goes up. If there’s a lot of something and not many people want it, the price goes down.
What is Supply and Demand?
Supports victims of domestic violence and sexual assault by offering crisis intervention, education, and resources to help them regain control of their lives. They provide a safe space, counseling, and advocacy to help individuals rebuild and move forward.
Who are the Women's Center of San Joaquin County
When a person or family worries about losing their home because they can't afford rent or bills.
What is Housing Insecurity?
A law that makes it illegal to discriminate against people when they are trying to rent or buy a home.
What is the Fair Housing Act of 1968?
A big loan from the bank that helps people buy a house. They pay back a little bit each month.
What is a Mortgage?
Enforced departure of people from their homes, typically because of natural disasters (tornado, hurricane, fires,) or persecution.
What is Displacement?
Worked to ensure equal housing opportunities in the community. They provide education, mediation, and assistance with housing-related issues, helping resolve complaints and working with property owners, tenants, and local agencies.
Who is the San Joaquin Fair Housing Association?
A racist practice where banks used to refuse to give loans to people in certain neighborhoods, making it harder for them to buy homes.
What is Redlining?
Rental housing assistance to low income household in the United States. Formerly known as Section 8.
What is Housing Choice Voucher?
Extra money that the bank charges when you borrow money, like a fee for the loan.
What is an Interest Rate?
When wealthy people move into a poor neighborhood, making everything more expensive and pushing out the people who already lived there.
What is Gentrification?