The Coalition for Economic Survival, a group that was instrumental in the city's incorporation and the introduction of strict rent control more than two years ago, has won a $3,000 grant from the Jewish Fund for Justice.
"Using a classic organizing and coalition-building strategy, CES has brought together low-income people into a visible and powerful coalition that has won substantive victories," said Rabbi Laura Geller, director of the Hillel Program at USC and a member of the board of the Jewish Fund for Justice, a poverty-fighting group.
