United Neighbors Video on the Impacts of SB 9 and SB 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m-NlGdq7Gs Visit United Neighbors website HERE
Brilliant Nerd Stephen Punwasi: “Home Prices Are Rising As More Supply Is Built. That’s How It Works”
May 15, 2021 Fresh air from Canada, thanks to Stephen Punwasi, one of North America's top influencers in finance and risk. Writing for Better Dwelling, Punwasi explains something many California state legislators are ignorant of as they embrace the Scott Wiener ideology of forcing cities to approve dense luxury housing to help the poor. Read
The Infamous SB 50 is Hiding in 7 Bad Bills: SB 6, SB 8, SB 9, SB 10 & SB 478, and AB 1322 & AB 1401
The Infamous SB 50 is Hiding in 7 Bad Bills: SB 6, SB 8, SB 9, SB 10, SB 478, AB 1322, AB 1401 Sacramento "trickle-down" housing proponents are trying to revive the divisive pre-COVID legislation SB 50 through a group of 7 bad bills. Without your intervention — meaning you contacting your own senator
SB 9 & SB 10: A Misguided Attack on SoCal’s Black and Latino Homeowners
(The above photo of Redondo Beach's "Tall and Skinnies" shows how SB 9 and SB 10 would decimate yards and overrun single-family streets. But the dense 4-plexes in the photo above are half the density allowed by SB 9 and SB 10, which would jam 8 to 10 market-rate units on the lots depicted above,
United Neighbors Explains Organizing and SB 9 & SB 10
Feb. 23, 2021 Maria and Jeff Kalban with United Neighbors presented in a teleconference with Livable California on Saturday Feb 20, 2021. United Neighbors is a coalition of neighborhood residential groups. Their common goal is to protect single-family neighborhoods while supporting affordable and equitable housing for all. They believe the rights of all residents of
California legislative expert Dan Carrigg: SB 9 lets 8-unit housing overrun single-family streets
Feb. 21, 2021 Respected California legislative expert Dan Carrigg of Renne Public Policy Group has announced that SB 9, a copycat of last year's divisive Senate Bill 1120, lets developers pave over single-family communities to erect dense 8-unit projects, and possibly 10 units, where 1 home stands today. The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco
SB 1120, Sold as a “Duplex” Bill, Would Have Disrupted Home Ownership Among 21M Californians
Most journalists believed that SB 1120, California’s banner housing bill for 2020, was a modest “duplex” bill. SB 1120 failed because enough people realized it was a radical experiment to transform single-family homes into 8-unit market-rate rentals. (Google Earth photo above: SB 1120 would make single-family streets far more dense than these streets in the
Wiener-Atkins Plan to Bring Son of SB 1120 Back Very Soon! To Upend Your Street with Dense, Unaffordable Homes
Updated April 7, 2021 Incredibly, state senators Scott Wiener and Toni Atkins are going to make ANOTHER push for massive market-rate density forced upon thousands of single-family streets statewide. The bill is SB 9, Son of SB 1120. How do we get this pair to understand that California needs one thing in the housing arena: Affordable
Sacramento’s Wild Night Killed Awful SB 1120, SB 1085 and SB 995 but also a Great Bill, SB 1299
In a meltdown Sacramento hasn't seen in years, state Senate boss Toni Atkins' gentrification and displacement bill, SB 1120, died early today — amidst shouting, legislators' mics cut off by enemies and other self-inflicted wounds. In the chaos, Atkins' entire "housing package" died, as bills ran into a legal deadline of 12:01 am, Sept. 1.
AB 725 is Approved by California Senate in Split Vote! It Soon Heads to Newsom
NEWS UPDATE: On Saturday Aug. 29, the California state senate APPROVED AB 725, cousin to SB 1120, in a split vote. Needing 21 votes, it got 23. An unfortunate outcome. Now the two houses will have a meeting called "concurrence" to work out lingering details. Then, the bill goes to Gov. Newsom. We hope