![Just Action: Challenging the Segregation Enacted under the Color of Law [EVENT]](https://onesanmateo.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/facebook-graphic.png?w=1154)
On October 26, 2023 Richard Rothstein returns to San Mateo, accompanied this time by his daughter and housing policy expert Leah Rothstein. Together they will discuss how concerned community members can act to undo the harms of this history and remedy a profoundly unconstitutional aspect of our nation’s past.
Working Toward Housing Justice in the City of San Mateo
A portfolio covering One San Mateo’s work so far
Rent Relief
California’s rent relief program
“I cannot live this way. I need help.” I received this text message two weeks ago, from a woman who lives in Daly City with her 84-year-old mother and twin daughters, who are in high school. In the simplest of ways, she needed relief. She explained to me that piecing together the rent every month was getting more and more difficult. It was nearing the impossible. She was at the end of her rope.
![Nuns in Our Backyard [PETITION]](https://onesanmateo.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/nuns_in_my_backyard_petition_image.png?w=1154)
Nuns in Our Backyard [PETITION]
As you may have heard, the Mercy nuns are proposing to develop their campus on Adeline Drive in Burlingame. Their current vision includes retirement housing for the nuns and a separate structure with senior affordable housing.
We can fix racial segregation on the Peninsula
The Bay Area is more racially segregated today than it was in 1970. Among the many destructive problems with residential segregation, one is that it helps governments create major imbalances in where they invest resources.
One San Mateo 