OFFICIAL SPOKESPERSONS:
Our campaign reflects a coalition of more than two dozen leading homelessness, workers’ rights, tenants’ rights groups, labor unions and affordable housing nonprofit organizations on the front lines of housing affordability and homelessness. Notably, our initiative was written by homelessness and housing experts—not politicians—and that is reflected in the official spokespersons we have designated to respond to interview requests. If you wish to speak to a representative from another sector within our coalition, just get in touch.
LAURA RAYMOND,
CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIR
Director, ACT-LA
Laura Raymond is the Director of the Alliance for Community Transit - Los Angeles (ACT-LA), a coalition of 38 organizations. Laura led ACT-LA in co-anchoring Build Better LA, a community/labor partnership that drafted and passed Measure JJJ in November 2016 and defeated Measure S in March 2017. She sat on the steering committee of the Coalition for a Just LA, which succeeded in passing an affordable housing linkage fee in LA in December 2017. She led ACT-LA in helping to draft and pass LA Metro’s first ever Transit-Oriented Communities (TOC) policy in June 2018. ACT-LA works tirelessly to ensure that smart growth and urban revitalization do not mask, ignore, or deepen, the negative human and environmental impacts of the affordable housing crisis in Los Angeles. ACT-LA also strives to eliminate the barriers and institutional policies that unduly and historically burden low-income communities and communities of color. Over the last 20 years, Laura has been active in a wide range of policy campaigns, civil and human rights projects and has built and coordinated numerous social justice coalitions. Immediately prior to ACT-LA, she spent six years managing advocacy campaigns with the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Our coalition represents a diverse cross section or organizations and experts committed to ending homelessness and promoting affordable housing. An evolving list of official spokespersons includes:
Alexandra Suh, Executive Director, KIWA
Alan Greenlee, Executive Director, SCANPH
Jenise Dixon, Right to Counsel Coalition, Tenant Rights Advocate
Eli Lipmen, Director of Programming and Development, MOVE LA