Policy Action Alerts
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Please Support RAMP’s Healthy Housing Bills!
We recently announced two healthy housing bills RAMP is sponsoring this year. Will you take a moment to show your support for healthy housing? AB 548, authored by Assemblymember Boerner-Horvath, will introduce a proactive element to complaint-based code enforcement. The bill requires code enforcement officers to inspect additional units at a multi-family property if they…
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RAMP’s Housing Legislation Will Improve and Support Local Code Enforcement
Over the past ten years, RAMP and key partners have worked together to advance legislation to fix gaps in the state’s housing code, including closing loopholes related to pest infestations, ensuring tenants are notified when pesticides are used on a property, and adding visible mold as an enforceable substandard housing condition. With many key issues…
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California’s Medicaid Policies Support Asthma Home Visiting Services
Last year, RAMP and our partners made groundbreaking progress changing policies to increase access to asthma home visiting services for Californians with poorly controlled asthma. In 2023, we are excited to see these policies more fully enacted to integrate in-home education, trigger assessment and environmental remediation into the health care system. With these policies in…
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The Struggle Against Systemic Racism
Like so many of you, our hearts are filled with sadness and anger over the outrageous deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and many, many others. As we started to write this post on June 1st, police officers were tear-gassing peaceful protesters in Washington DC. That was just one of many acts of…
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COVID-19 Is Not a Reason to Rollback Air Quality Protections
Industry stakeholders, along with some California legislators, are using the coronavirus pandemic to justify rolling back or delaying much-needed air quality protections. While we’re sympathetic to the global economic impacts of COVID-19, this is precisely the wrong time to stop California’s progress toward clean air, especially in inequitably burdened communities. Why? There is compelling early research showing…
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The Rent is Due: Tenant Protections and the COVID-19 Outbreak
Tenant protections are a core part of RAMP’s work to promote stable and healthy housing, and the coronavirus outbreak has only reinforced the importance of such protections. As the outbreak expanded, we were proud to support a call for a statewide moratorium on rent increases and evictions. But we know these policies are only temporary. …
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Update: Request for Proposals: A $15 million victory for people with asthma!
Update: Asthma Preventive Services Project Request for Proposals Applications were due April 28th at 1:00 PM Pacific. The Center at the Sierra Health Foundation, which is administering the funding. More information and application resources are available here. — In a big win for Californians with poorly controlled asthma, the recently adopted state budget allocates $15 million to…
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Your Support Needed to Expand Access to Asthma Home Visiting Services in California
We need your letter of support to help advance SB 207, and a related budget appropriation, which would increase access to asthma education and home environmental trigger remediation among Medi-Cal beneficiaries with poorly controlled asthma. There is robust evidence showing that asthma education and in-home assessments improve the lives of people with asthma and reduce…
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Join California Advocates in Support of a Big, Bold Asthma Advocacy Strategy for 2019
Now’s the time! Join California advocates in support of a big, bold asthma advocacy strategy for 2019 to expand asthma home visiting services for those with poorly controlled asthma in Medi-Cal. Over the past two years, RAMP, the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, Children Now and a diverse set of partners worked with the Department of…