Our Work

• Decarbonizing members' homes

• Organizing around the rental inspection program

• Tenant organizing at Monterey Pines, including the Rent Board vote on removing the rent control exemption

• November election work through ACCE Action, including Measure S in San Pablo

• Settlement funds organizing

• Kennedy High School contamination: an emerging campaign taking on the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) through legal and research support, student and parent outreach, an anonymous tip line, public records requests, and communications that counter the "everything's fine" narrative

• A campaign to ban data centers, organized largely through the arts

• Long-term work toward decommissioning the refinery

• E-Bike Lending Library: up to 40 bikes, plus 60 free e-bikes through the VTM program. The project is now leaning toward renovating a city-owned building rather than new construction, with 300+ signatures pushing council on ECIA funds. The future vision includes satellite e-bike libraries that solve first/last mile access.

• Base building through weekend bike rides

• Rich PEP, which seeks parity between municipal parks and East Bay Regional Parks, held to a quarter-mile walkable/bikeable standard that includes streets and sidewalks

• The Black Wellness Hub

• An elections coordinating committee that produces a progressive voter guide, provides voter education on Richmond's new primary elections, and offers vote-by-mail guidance in light of federal executive orders

• Member-led conversations on the Chevron settlement, centered on housing as a human right and the arts corridor

• An adopted platform document that dictates their policy positions and how they support allies

• North Richmond at the Table

• NR Resident Leaders Program 

  • Youth and Reentry Workforce Development Program to paint North Richmond homes affected by refinery soot 

  • Mapping and assessing air quality monitors in North Richmond (starting soon)

  • Community Resiliency Center at the North Richmond Farm 

• Roots Run Deep Just Transition Podcast 

• 377 Brookside: Employee Housing Security Initiative (in progress)

• ​Soil remediation, using our community garden as a demonstration site, extending toward homes near the refinery, and feeding a longer-term community wellness visioning project

• Refinery decommissioning policy at the city level, giving council leverage to demand full accountability and cleanup commitments before Chevron announces closure

• Settlement funds organizing 

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• The loan fund as a tool to stimulate Richmond's small business ecosystem, supporting businesses with operations, expansion, and co-op conversions

• The business cohort, a 11-week program that serves as a startup pathway and ends with a $5,000 pilot grant and provides a pathway into the loan fund for startups.

• A mortgage program with Richmond LAND tied to the "right to return"

• Ensuring the Heritage Point grocery store opens as a co-op owned by Richmond residents

• The North Richmond Eco Village is the flagship project: adaptive reuse of the decommissioned Las Deltas sites. The project is split into a larger site with 8 units of three-bedroom duplexes near Verde Elementary and a smaller micro-cottage site with 4–5 units, all fully electric with solar.

• A Shared Equity Housing Program that adapts Richmond Community Foundation's social impact bond rehab model into the CLT, keeping homeownership permanently affordable through a resale formula

• In 2027: launch home buying, start construction on the rehab site, build the in-house framework, and possibly pilot one home

•  A Just Transition / Mass Liberation / Electoral Politics political education series preparing members well ahead of 2028 local races and 2030 congressional races. 

• An intergenerational impacted-people cohort leading into participatory action research on health, wellness, displacement, and environmental justice. 

• And organizing around the settlement funds: building a workforce development project out of the economic and workforce demands section members' authored. 

  • Including a learning from Richmond LAND's capital campaigns and cooperative ownership model.