Today we look at Affordable Housing and Coalitions for Building Safe and Healthy Communities in the San Francisco Bay area. We will address how reactionary forces including the Tea Party and Nimby groups seek to block equitable housing and livable communities . Our guests include Wendi Kallins with Livable Marin and Safe Routes to Schools, Samuel P. Tepperman-Gelfanis a Senior Staff Attorney with Public Advocates which supports equitable development and affordable housing, and Chris McManus community housing advocate and researcher in Fairfax California.