Strategic Actions for a Just Economy

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Strategic Actions for a Just Economy
AbbreviationSAJE
Formation1996;29 years ago (1996)
FounderGilda Haas
Purpose"Our mission is to change public and corporate policy in a manner that provides concrete economic benefits to working class people, increases the economic rights of working class people, and builds leadership through a movement for economic justice; and in the process creating sustainable models of economic democracy."
Location
Executive Director
Cynthia Strathmann PhD
Website www.saje.net

Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE) is a non-profit economic justice organization based in Los Angeles. [1] It was founded in 1996 by Gilda Haas and Kent Wong and is currently led by Executive Director Cynthia Strathmann PhD. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Community Benefits Agreements

As a founding convening organization of the United Neighbors in Defense Against Displacement Coalition (UNIDAD)--formerly known as the Coalition for a Responsible USC and the Figueroa Corridor Coalition for Economic Justice--SAJE has fought for the adoption community benefits agreements (CBA) that ensure new developments benefit existing working-class residents in impacted neighborhoods. [6] [7] These agreements have included provisions for affordable housing funding, local targeted hiring, low-income health clinics, and set asides for low and extremely-low income housing. [8] [7]

Notable projects with CBAs involving SAJE:

Other projects

Retracted housing vacancy report

In 2019, researchers working for SAJE published a report claiming that there were more vacant homes in Los Angeles than homeless people. After questions about the report's methodology, the report was removed from the internet. [14]

References

  1. ↑ "SAJE About Us Page" . Retrieved 2017-09-30.
  2. ↑ Paulina González “Moving from Occupying Wall Street to Occupying Strategy”, The Narco News Bulletin, 23 November 2011
  3. ↑ “No subsidy, no hotel”, Daily News of Los Angeles, June 17, 2001
  4. ↑ "Antioch University Los Angeles Announces Gilda Haas as Interim Core Faculty for the Master of Arts in Urban Sustainability Program." Targeted News Service [TNS 12 Oct. 2011. CNSN. Web. 26 Nov. 2011.
  5. ↑ "SAJE Staff Page" . Retrieved 2017-09-30.
  6. ↑ "UNIDAD-LA Who We Are" . Retrieved 2017-09-30.
  7. 1 2 3 Pastor, Manuel, et al. “Planning, Power, Possibilities: How UNIDAD is Shaping Equitable Development in South Central LA.” Program for Environmental and Regional Equity, Sept. 2015, dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/242/docs/Planning_Power_Possibilities_UNIDAD_PERE_final_report.pdf.
  8. 1 2 Saito, Leland; Truong, Jonathan (2014-03-25). "The L.A. Live Community Benefits Agreement". Urban Affairs Review. 51 (2): 263–289. doi:10.1177/1078087414527064.
  9. ↑ "South Los Angeles community leaders sign agreement for Lorenzo Project". Intersections South LA. February 10, 2011. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
  10. ↑ "Community Agreement in Major Development to Boost Good Jobs and Affordable Homes in South L.A." Public Counsel. March 12, 2015. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
  11. ↑ “S afe, Affordable Housing Secured in Settlement With Convicted Slumlord." Multi-Housing News (2007). General OneFile. Web. 26 Nov. 2011.
  12. ↑ WOODARD, CHRISTOPHER. "Job Losses but No Crisis With Flight of L.A. Banks." Los Angeles Business Journal 23.26 (2001): 36. General OneFile. Web. 26 Nov. 2011.
  13. ↑ "1,000 Ready to Take Action for Health and Human Rights in South Los Angeles Tomorrow." Pediatrics Week 25 Dec. 2010: 46. Health Reference Center Academic. Web. 26 Nov. 2011.
  14. ↑ "Authors Pull Back Study That Found LA Has More Vacant Homes Than Homeless People [UPDATED]". LAist. 2019-11-20.
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