Allie Receives Housing California’s Housing Justice Award

A graphic with Housing California’s logo as a background, a house within asymmetric star shapes. The graphic has dark blue coloring along the header and footer of the image and light blue and white coloring in the center. Text on graphic reads, “Housing Justice Award: Honorees Announced. Housing California, Annual Conference. Join Us In Celebrating: Allie Cannington, Director of Advocacy, The Kelsey. Advancing disability-forward housing solutions and intersectional justice. Info & Tickets at conference.housingca.org.” Allie Cannington is pictured in a circle frame in the middle of the graphic. They are a white queer person smiling in their manual wheelchair with short brown hair, round glasses, earrings, and a blazer.

Our Managing Director, Allie, has been recognized as a Housing Justice Award Honoree by Housing California! Housing California brings together a diverse, multi-sector network to prevent and end homelessness, increase affordable housing options, and reverse the legacy of racial and economic injustice in housing. As a leading force in advancing housing solutions across the state, we’re honored that disability-forward housing is being recognized by the Housing Justice Awards.

Allie’s leadership in advancing affordable, accessible, inclusive, and integrated housing continues to make a profound impact in our communities and beyond. At the awards ceremony, she delivered a powerful speech highlighting the housing field’s opportunity to change lives by prioritizing and committing to creating this housing. Watch her speech below.

Congratulations, Allie!