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Organize Hayward

Building community in the Heart of the Bay

House Hayward Now

House Hayward Now (HHN) is a resident-led group formed to address the housing and homelessness crisis in Hayward. HHN is completely resident/volunteer-run and takes ZERO funding from corporate real-estate interests. HHN approaches this work from three angles:

  1. Policy: HHN researches regional and national housing solutions, translating them into policies that can be put into practice specifically for Hayward.

  2. Advocacy: HHN engages in community outreach to inform our policy research and provide housing education to local decision-makers and organizations involved in housing and homelessness work. 

  3. Organizing: HHN actively canvasses tenants across the city to understand their needs, educate them about their rights and resources, and encourage them to organize with their neighbors.

In 2023, HHN successfully advocated for the City of Hayward to allocate $500,000 in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding towards free legal aid for residents facing evictions after the COVID moratorium expried, preventing a wave of unjust evictions and homelessness.

In 2024, the City’s Housing and Homelessness Task Force was nearly placed on hiatus, but HHN organized alongside local service providers for Hayward to convert the Task Force into the City’s permanent Housing Policy and Research Committee, ensuring that housing remains a focus for our City for years to come.

HHN also introduced a Rental Registry System ​(RRS) to the city, which will provide our city with the necessary data to track and enforce fair rent increases, prevent illegal evictions, and gain better insight into housing and homelessness trends in our city. We succeeded in moving the RRS past the city’s Housing and Homelessness Task Force, and City Council incorporated its development into their strategic roadmap. 

In September 2025,  the full City Council held a worksession on a Rental Registry Ordinance. Residents from across the city spoke out in unanimous support and a majority of the Council were favorable the program, however direction was given to revisit the program in a year due to staffing shortages while the city’s addresses its severe budget deficit.

We are currently developing a student homelessness intervention plan (SHIP) in partnership with staff from Hayward Promise Neighborhood, Hayward Unified School District, South Hayward Parish, and La Familia.

HHN has joined the Hayward Community Coalition in an effort to coordinate tenant organizing in Hayward.

HHN Members awake at 5am to participate in the County’s Point-In-Time Count (Homelessness Census)