Since Housing Trust started diversity, equity and inclusion work a few years ago, we’ve been trying to do more outward facing efforts for the communities we serve, such as creating fliers in multiple languages for our homeownership/down payment assistance programs, Empower Homebuyers SCC and H.E.L.P. We are proud to take another small step in our…
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Work in Progress: Housing Trust and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
September 23, 2020
It’s been over two years since Housing Trust started an ad hoc diversity, equity and inclusion group. Since then, our Board of Directors has provided us with resources and support – including the creation of a DEI Committee of their own – to better allow Housing Trust to move from statements of support to action…
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Black Lives Matter: Moving to Action
June 4, 2020
Dear Partners, Our entire team is jolted and saddened by the violent and unjust killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many others. We stand with the Black Lives Matter movement – just as we stand with our black employees, board members, partners, residents, community members – and implore our neighbors to…
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Bolder Measures, Greater Equity
March 13, 2020
by: Kevin Zwick, CEO, Housing Trust Silicon Valley Today, I had planned to welcome more than 600 friends and neighbors at our annual Investor Briefing to celebrate our collective work and Housing Trust’s 20th anniversary. But a week ago, we heeded the call to do our part to slow the spread of the COVID-19 and…