LOCAL POLICY ADVOCACY 

ADVOCATE for Community Land Trust in the City of Richmond 
We are advocating for resources to continue our work from the City of Richmond. Click Here for more information on the community budgeting meetings. 


RICHMOND LAND is a participant in the current cohort of the Partnership for The Bay's Future,  to implement local policies that advance housing justice and the CLT model in Richmond CA. Our goal is to build relationships with all agencies to collectively advance equitable policies and development  in Richmond and West Contra Costa County. 
 

Just Right to Return: By requiring a preference for local non-profit developers for the disposition of Las Deltas Projects public lands, the County has demonstrated a commitment to supporting the growth of organizations that are based in North Richmond. We will further build policies and practices related to our commitment to support a just return  for former Las Deltas and North Richmond residents through all future development at Housing Authority of Contra Costa County (HACCC’s) former sites.


Equitable Land Disposition: Richmond LAND partnered with the City of Richmond to create innovative community ownership models to solve some of the most pressing housing and displacement challenges by establishing the Equitable Public Land Disposition Policy. This first-of-its-kind policy outlines the goals for developing affordable housing on city-owned land and criteria to guide the process of selecting and then leasing or selling parcels of surplus city-owned land.

NORTH RICHMOND COALITION REVITALIZING MOU 
RICHMOND LAND, along with other stakeholders of North Richmond is collaborating withGreat Communities Collaborative (GCC), a multi-sector network of organizations and agencies that together envision and advance a socially equitable economically prosperous, and environmentally sustainable communities. Our goal is to revitalize an existing MOU in North Richmond to continue the collective work centered around advancing the goals of equitable development, neighborhood safety, job training and workforce development, and investments in infrastructure for the future of North Richmond.  Click to review the last MOU 

Advocacy letters: 

July 5, 2022 – Housing Element Presentation with Greenbelt 

  • In order to share more broadly with members of the community about what the housing element is, we teamed up with Greenbelt to do an overview of the fundamentals of the housing element. This sessioned centers  Contra Costa’s Housing element as a policy document that must be adopted for effective implementation of housing policies across the County.

February 7, 2022 – Housing Element letter

  • When RL began to seed the vision of the Tiny House Eco Village, we saw that the zoning type required  to build the type of community we wanted was not possible due to Contra Costa County’s zoning policies. Contra Costa’s housing element was so outdated, it did not reflect the current needs of the community. So we engaged with our members to advocate for Housing Policies such as anti-speculation and anti-displacement. 

March 26, 2021 – Environmental Justice Goals, Policies, & Actions to Sustainability Committee & Commission (Citizen advisory board) letter.

  • The general plan is a comprehensive collection of goals, policies and actions that guides future land-use, development, conservation. Once we began to create innovative project ideas sourced by local residents, we needed to understand whether planning rules and regulations would allow us to enact our vision of land-use and housing justice. General plan advocacy is about ensuring ___as a  would have long term policy impacts on our community so Richmond LAND’s membership got involved with the first element that the County undertook. This was our introduction to the general plan process and how our membership saw EJ goals as vital to housing and home.

Public land in community hands CAMPAIGN

Richmond LAND believes the desires and needs of the community of North Richmond should be centered in the disposition of public housing land known as Las Deltas. Since late 2020, Richmond LAND has raised awareness about the upcoming disposition process, provided spaces for residents to meet and discuss their desires and hopes for future development on scattered sites, and provide popular education about the community land trust model as a tool for ensuring community-held transformation of the 42 Las Deltas scattered sites.