California cities are rushing to set rational rules for an expected wave of development via SB 9, the outrageous state law that overrides single-family housing on Jan. 1, 2022 to allow multiple-unit market-rate projects on 7 million single-family lots. SB 9 is deaf to the vast environmental and economic damage to come, when California homeownership
May 27, 2021, republished by permission. By Cynthia Davis and Susie Shannon In California, politicians and developers are attacking single-family home zoning. Yet they suspiciously ignore that homeownership is a crucial tool for communities of color to build wealth. Politicians should not take that away by banning single-family zoning: people of color will suffer serious
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
[Published by permission of 48hills.org] The mystery of Newsom’s 3.5 million housing units shortage The data shows that the figure the governor still uses to justify his policies is just wrong. By ZELDA BRONSTEIN OCTOBER 9, 2020 “Today,” tweeted California Yimby staffer Louis Mirante on September 28, “the Gov signed 3 Ca YIMBY-sponsored bills. That’s
In 2020, all California cities face an existential battle to save their livability, affordability and environment from state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, and his dozen or so hardcore followers in the legislature, who embrace Wiener’s failed theory that building dense luxury housing will “trickle down” to the rest of us. LivableCalifornia.org is a
By Tim Redmond, June 29, 2019, 48Hills.Org. Testimony looks at how ‘streamlining’ bill would cut the public out of crucial development discussions. Several members of the Planning Commission expressed concern this week about SB 330, a bill by Sen. Nancy Skinner that is supposed to speed up housing development– and one commissioner said the city