Our Neighborhood Voices Event Thursday April 27th We had a great presentation Saturday, April 22nd from the Our Neighborhood Voices (ONV) Team. The video of that presentation is linked here. Time is critical – we have a big ask: 1: Join us for a virtual town hall and fundraiser Thursday, April 27 at 6:30
Our Neighborhood Voices Presentation to Livable California April 22, 2023 Watch Video Below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbVJwzJjLHw Presentation Slides - Downloadable:
Tom Rubin Presentation to Livable California March 11, 2023 Tom presents on a variety of subjects, bringing together the subjects of housing near transit, transit utility and performance across the state, parking restrictions, utility of cars by lower income people, GHG of transit vs cars, impacts of new technology, and complete streets impact on emergency
Impacts of Road Diets and Traffic Calming on Public Safety Videos and images from around the country demonstrate the unintended, dangerous, and potentially deadly consequences when emergency routes are "road dieted." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaA6EvIAQrs
Laura Kiesel Speaks on Eco-Genrification at a Livable California teleconference on 11 5 22 We reached out to Ms. Kiesel after reading her Salon article, Why “greening” cities can make gentrification worse — and often doesn’t help the environment either” (https://www.salon.com/2022/02/26/eco-gentrification/) Laura Kiesel is a Boston freelance writer and editor. Her Bio on SpeakerHub reads
Video Presentation: https://youtu.be/jN7DDOylCe0 PDF of Presentation (Downloadable)
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
November 2021 By Ryan McDonald and Mark McDermott/Photography by JP Cordero (This story first appeared on Nov. 12, 2021 in Easy Reader. Republished here with approval of the authors.) Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand visited the State Capitol building in Sacramento in early 2018 to meet with state legislators about the numerous efforts underway to
Oct. 20, 2021 (The slideshow above shows the hundreds of California fire severity zones. The slides start with San Diego, head north on the coast to Oregon, then turn inland and head south from Clear Lake Reservoir in NorCal to Indio in SoCal. One in six single-family homes in California is within a red, orange
September 16, 2021 Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed SB 9 and its cousin bill, SB 10, two deeply flawed and troubling bills that target single-family areas for density but with different approaches. Neither bill requires any affordable housing to alleviate California's affordability crisis. And SB 9 is the first housing bill signed in California's