The home was originally purchased by our late friend and DJCC founder Stacey Park Milbern. Stacey’s dream was to create both an affordable haven for low-income Disabled BIPOC in a rapidly-gentrifying Bay Area, and a radically accessible space in the East Bay for community building and movement work. She fundraised in order to pay for the renovations needed to make the home accessible and keep herself firmly planted here, and community came through to support her vision.

Currently residing at 1931 are three Disabled and/or neurodivergent QTBIPOC. We use it as a cozy home where folks care about each other’s access needs, and as a base for DJCC’s community work. It also serves as a telecommuting spot for residents’ other work, including one resident who works in crisis intervention.

As a Disability Justice community resilience and organizing hub, our home has been put to many uses. We’ve been able to host community gatherings and celebrations, organizing events and protest planning sessions, sign painting parties and emergency resource preparation/distribution, classes and book clubs – all for and by BIPOC and Disabled community.

As a home, it is incredibly precious to the folks that live here. It is fragrance-free, and much hard work has been put into making it accessible to wheeled mobility aids (and there’s still more to do!). Accessible housing that Disabled folk can both live in and afford (on tiny fixed incomes) is incredibly rare.

Supporting this fundraiser would mean helping to bring forth the vision of secure, affordable, accessible housing, while also helping to enable DJCC to continue our efforts toward community connection and empowerment. We aim to raise $700,000 to make this dream a reality. We’ve already made important strides toward this goal, but we need community support to get us there. Thank you all for joining us in this effort.