Why Community Matters

Affordable housing isn’t preserved by technology or policy alone. It’s preserved when communities organize around their housing — when advocates, researchers, landlords, tenants, and policymakers work together toward shared goals.

LeaseBase Housing Foundation provides the infrastructure for that collaboration.

How You Can Contribute

Volunteer

Help us deliver workshops, mentor landlords, or organize community events. We especially need volunteers with expertise in property management, legal aid, financial counseling, or community organizing. Our workshops run quarterly in Sacramento and virtually statewide.

Advocate

Join our advocacy network and help shape housing policy at the local and state level. We provide research, talking points, and coordination — you bring your voice, your vote, and your community connections. Current priorities include landlord retention incentives, small-scale housing preservation programs, and compliance simplification.

Research

If you’re an academic, journalist, or data analyst, we want to hear from you. We’re building the evidence base for landlord retention as a housing preservation strategy — and we need partners who can help collect data, analyze trends, and publish findings. We offer data access, co-authorship opportunities, and connections to our landlord network.

Refer

Know a landlord who’s struggling? A property owner thinking about selling? A first-time landlord who needs guidance? Refer them to our programs. Every landlord we help stay in the game is a set of affordable units preserved for the community.

Write

We publish weekly research and insights on our blog. If you have expertise in housing policy, landlord law, financial management, or community development, consider contributing an article. We handle editing, design, and distribution — you bring the knowledge.

Our Network

We work with organizations across the Sacramento region and California:

  • Housing nonprofits focused on tenant services, homelessness prevention, and fair housing
  • Government agencies at the city, county, and state level
  • Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) providing capital to underserved communities
  • University researchers studying housing markets, displacement, and policy impact
  • Landlord associations and property management professionals
  • Legal aid organizations serving both landlords and tenants

Events

We host and participate in regular events:

  • Quarterly landlord workshops in Sacramento (next: December 2026)
  • Monthly community roundtables at Aggie Square via CLTRE partnership
  • Annual Housing Preservation Summit (inaugural: June 2027)
  • Virtual webinar series on California housing law and compliance

All Foundation events are free and open to the public.