Dear Friends,
I hope you and loved ones are well. This email seeks to put a couple of very different resources onto your radar screen.
To start out, if there is anything my office can do to assist you, do not hesitate to contact us using the contact information listed below. We are proud to have assisted literally thousands of our constituents navigating their way through various aspects of the pandemic.
In case you are interested and missed our recent webinar regarding the state's rental eviction moratorium that ended September 30, I was joined by local and state experts who talked about what that deadline meant and what steps you should be considering going forward. There is a considerable amount of federal rental assistance aid still available that can help keep tenants housed and their landlords properly compensated.
All of the relevant information is still available to you on our website. You can watch the webinar here, and you can view the presentations and information from the various panelists here. If you are either a landlord or a renter and if we can be helpful to you please contact us.
On a completely different topic, I’d like to invite you to join us for what we hope will be a very interesting book discussion. We plan for it to be the first in a series of occasional book talk gatherings where you’ll have the chance to connect with us and discuss issues impacting our communities, governance, and culture through new books.
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Our first book discussion will be Monday, October 25th at 7:30 p.m. In honor of LGBTQ+ History Month, we will be discussing a fascinating new book The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage by Sasha Issenberg, a talented author, reporter, and educator. His book is already being described as the authoritative account of the history of our nation’s battle over marriage equality. And it turns out that much of that history takes place very close to home in and around West Hollywood and Los Angeles. I will have the pleasure of discussing the book with Sasha, followed by a panel discussion with Law Professor and advocate Evan Wolfson, Founder of Freedom to Marry, and West Hollywood City Councilmember Sepi Shyne. We’ll dive into lessons learned from the battle for marriage equality and how they can be applied to our state’s current legislative work on today’s pertinent LGBTQ issues, such as gender identity, equitable healthcare, adoption rights, and more.
You can register to attend the discussion here.
Our next book discussion will be about philanthropy – more details to come. I hope to see you there!
And, as always, if there is anything my office can do to assist you, do not hesitate to contact us. You can reach us:
- By phone: (310) 318-6994
- By e-mail: senator.allen@senate.ca.gov
- Online: https://sd26.senate.ca.gov/ for information, and visit https://sd26.senate.ca.gov/covid-19-resources for more COVID resources.
Best,
SENATOR BEN ALLEN
