Fair housing video resources
Clear information can prevent housing problems from becoming crises.
Watch Cherie Dimmerling discuss housing rights, public accountability, civil-rights history and homelessness prevention.
Housing stability
Prevention Is the Key
Keeping people housed is more effective—and less costly—than trying to repair the damage after homelessness occurs.
Tenant education
Knowing Your Housing Rights
People cannot exercise protections they do not know they have. Clear, timely information can change the outcome of a housing crisis.
Our approach
Business Experience. Public Accountability.
Cherie explains how evidence, accountability and practical problem-solving shape the Council’s approach.
Civil rights and fair housing
How history informs today’s work.
These excerpts connect the origins of fair housing law with the continuing responsibility to confront discrimination and protect equal opportunity.
Fair-housing history
The Origins of the Fair Housing Act
Cherie explains how civil-rights organizing and national tragedy helped create the political momentum for landmark fair-housing protections.
Our region
Sacramento’s Fair-Housing Challenge
Fair-housing protections only matter when people know their rights and communities remain willing to enforce them.
From belief to action
Progress Requires Action
Good intentions are not enough. Cherie discusses the sustained public action required to advance fair housing and prevent hard-won rights from being rolled back.
Whose voices matter
Ask a Woman
A short closing thought about listening to women’s experience when policies affect women, children and families.