Resources

Communications Toolkit

This toolkit includes talking points, reports, and brochures you can print and use in your advocacy work.

We ask you to:

Incorporate the Talking Points and broken marketplace story into your website, collateral, handouts, and conversations.
Load any/all of these materials to your website.
Link to the toolkit pieces in your next e-newsletter; pass them out at your next community meeting; share them with your colleagues, friends, and family.

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NEW! Housing Situation Reports -- (PDFs)
What is the housing situation in your community? Housing CA's unique three-page, full-color reports vividly illustrate not only the need for affordable places to live in communities throughout California, but also the benefits of building affordable homes and apartments.

Learn about the housing situation in your area and the benefits you and your community will gain by building more affordable places to live.

Home: The Foundation for Life -- (PDF)
We know people care about business and the economy, schools/education, public safety, health, the environment, and other issues. Our eight-page, color brochure ties the benefits of affordable homes to other top concerns. You won't always be able to get people to care about home affordability as much as you do, but you can help people see how making sure everyone has a safe, decent place to live can benefit the issues they already care about!

Check out Home: The Foundation for Life.

Investing in Home Production to Stimulate California's Economy
We all know that building more affordable places to live stimulates the economy, and now Housing CA has created two new tools to help you make an effective case with legislators.
- White Paper -- (PDF)
- Executive Summary -- (PDF)
Talking About the Housing Market in California -- (PDF)
Talking points based on 2008 polling and other research. Incorporate these into your website, collateral, handouts, and conversations!

Communicating with Legislators on "Stabilizing the Housing Market" -- (PDF)
Created by ActionMedia for advocacy training, this presentation can be used to help educate other advocates. If you did not attend an advocates training and have questions about how to use this presentation, contact Karen Naungayan at 916.447.0503.

A Winning Story for Housing Reform -- (Word)
This document summarizes the story we need to tell in order to be more effective in meeting our goal -- ensuring that everyone has a safe, decent place to live.