Dear RUN,

We’re three weeks away from our Lobby Days, and so many of you have already signed up to share your voices from your screens at home. Thirteen RUN leaders have already gotten everyone trained up in how to do a lobby visit and our two bills for this year - in both English and Spanish!

Register for Lobby Days now

Here’s Alice Mouradian of Los Angeles explaining AB 328 with some gorgeous artwork she created at our English-language training last week.

Here’s what you can do this week to prep for Lobby Days:

1. Have you already attended one or two RUN trainings in English? Catch the last one this Wednesday.
2. Do you live in affordable housing - or wish you did? Register for Lobby Day and attend our last-call training in English on March 2 or in Spanish on March 3.
3. Are you a staff member at an affordable housing development? Are you a homeowner who supports affordable housing? Would you count yourself as an ally to residents of affordable housing? Register for Lobby Day and attend our ally training (in English) on March 4.
4. Do you have friends who should come to Lobby Days? Help them register, too!

Register now

In our trainings, you’ll learn what to do and how to speak to legislators in powerful ways. Join the movement for housing justice - there’s room for everyone!

Take good care,

Tori

Connect with RUN

• We will NOT have a regular Community Care call this Wednesday at 1pm. Instead, we’ll hold the third of three trainings for RUN members for Lobby Days in English at that time, on a different Zoom link. To get the link to that training, please register for Lobby Days. These trainings will NOT have Spanish interpretation.
• Our last-call training in Spanish will be March 3 at 10am. Register for Lobby Days to get that link. This training will NOT have English interpretation.
• Our last-call training for RUN members in English will be March 2 and 1pm.
• We’ll return to regular Community Care calls on March 3!
• Our ally training for staff, homeowners, and other allies will be March 4 at 10am. Register for Lobby Days to get that link!

News you can use

• RUN’s own Zella Knight of Los Angeles wrote last week for the Denver Voice about why people with lived experience of homelessness have to be at the table in conversations about housing policy.
• Here are five things California renters should know about their COVID eviction protections, from our partners at Public Advocates.