Healthy Homes Collaborative

Linda Kite Executive Director   Board of Directors   Elena Popp President   Perry Gottesfeld Vice-President   David E. Jacobs Secretary   Jane Malone Treasurer   Johanna Sanchez Member   Elvia Hernandez Member   Larry Gross Member

MEMBERSHIP ROSTER  2009 Coalition for Economic Survival has fought for over thirty years to secure tenants’ rights and preserve affordable housing. They led the efforts to win rent control in the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood, and were instrumental in securing L.A.’s Systematic Code Enforcement Program, Rent Escrow Account Program and Habitability Enforcement Program. They have organized tenants in both privately-owned and HUD- subsidized housing. Esperanza Community Housing Corporation is a non-profit housing developer with a community health promoter program. They have placed over 200 health promoters in community-based health programs, and are the lead agency in the Los Angeles Healthy Homes Outreach Project, which is funded through grants from HUD and private foundations.  Environmental Health Coalition is a San Diego community-based organization with a 20-year history dedicated to environmental justice issues. Their Healthy Homes, Healthy Children project has been applauded as the nation’s most effective healthy homes project for its work documenting health hazards and guiding communities into successful action and solutions.   FIRM (Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries) is a faith-based community organization committed to increasing the availability of safe and accessible housing in Fresno by addressing affordable housing and other economic and social justice issues.   Healthy African American Families is a community-based organization in South L.A. that works to improve the health of the African-American and Latino communities in Los Angeles County. They are committed to enhancing the quality of health care and advancing social progress through education, training, and collaborative partnering with community, academia, researchers and government. They have worked with property owners to assist them in making their rental units healthy for the tenants, and have worked to improve the health of asthma sufferers by addressing the housing problems they face.   Inner City Law Center is a public interest law firm dedicated to the elimination of slum housing.    Inquilinos Unidos (United Tenants) is a Los Angeles organization dedicated to empowering low-income tenants to fight for safe, decent, and affordable housing through community organizing, education and advocacy. IU addresses issues of slum housing, illegal evictions, discrimination, rent gouging and tenant harassment, and serves as an advocate for the preservation and expansion of low-income housing and rent control. IU has also been successful in forcing building repairs and alerting city agencies and government to ongoing abuse and neglect of tenant law.  Send IU an email by clicking here.   Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance works to empower Koreatown’s low-wage immigrant workers to fight for dignity and respect in the workplace and community, and to work together with other communities to realize a vision of a just Los Angeles. As one of Los Angeles’ most unequal local economies, Koreatown is an important battleground in the struggle to create a more equitable city. The struggles of Koreatown’s workers point to the core problems of our society, and offer up potential solutions.  Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma is an alliance of parents working with health professionals and government agencies to improve children’s health and address asthma at a community level.  Los Angeles Community Legal Center and Educational is a public-interest law center working to educate tenants on their rights, organize effective campaigns around specific landlords and to address immigrants’ rights issues.  National Health Law Program is dedicated to improving health access for the poor and uninsured. They are also one of the first organizations to address lead poisoning as a systemic health issue in poor communities of color. Pacoima Beautiful is a community-based organization that addresses environmental justice issues in a very disenfranchised neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley. They are effective in bringing together community members across many issues. They seek grassroots solutions and assist government agencies to implement those solutions citywide.  People’s CORE (The People's Community Organization for Reform and Empowerment) is a community-based organization that addresses environmental justice issues in the Historic Filipino Town area of Central L.A. and the Carson area. They are working on many issues, including healthy homes concerns in the face of extreme gentrification pressures.    Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles is a non-profit organization that brings together health professionals with diverse communities to work toward social justice, non-violence and environmental health. They seek to prevent what cannot be cured.   Western Center on Law and Poverty advances and enforces the rights of low-income Californians in health, housing and public assistance by working statewide for systemic change. They improve the lives of their clients through litigation, education, legal support to social and legal services providers, legislation and policy advocacy.