Community Engagement

Our Community Engagement programs combine both advocacy and leadership development around tenant protections, housing equity.

Monument Impact’s organizing and advocacy campaigns are driven by community input and employ a number of strategies and tactics, including:

• Tenant Protections: For over 7 years, Monument Impact has fought to prevent the displacement of Concord tenants due to the rapid rise in rents–62% since 2011. We won an anti-harassment ordinance in 2022 and rent stabilization and just cause in 2024.
• Door-knocking in key districts to identify community issues and supporters: Our Success Begins at Home campaign sent staff and canvassers to multiple districts across Concord to talk with residents about the importance of stable housing for families to thrive and to ask for their support for a rent stabilization ordinance.
• Concord Naval Weapons Station (CNWS): MI has been engaged in advocating for 25% of all housing developed at the CNWS to be affordable to very low and low-income residents.
• Outreach, including tabling at resource fairs with information about tenant rights,  campaigns, and resources for residents