To download this presentation, use the download icon in the controls at top and bottom of the window If you're into feeling outrage, watch this Livable California teleconference on how many ways legislators tried to destroy existing housing in 2020 — to build more costly OTHER housing.
Kate Lister beat you all to Zoom by about a million years. She's the West Coast guru of remote working, and she totally gets why fewer and fewer people are willing to "commute" — which sounds ancient at this point. Listen as this fantastic leader in communicating and working shows the way
Less commuting, more space, cheaper housing, shade trees, less GHG, better lives. Why do so many California state legislators refuse to read the U.S. Census data, the endless telecommuting stories in the news, the constant reports of the inevitably huge cost of living in the urban core? Wendell
State Assemblyman Richard Bloom has morphed into Scott Wiener, even as Wiener loses support among Sacramento legislators due to his slyness and divisive war on homes, yards and neighborhoods. In his AB 1279, Bloom (Santa Monica) would jam ultra-dense housing in newly defined "Opportunity Areas" — thriving middle-class areas that Bloom's bill would seek to
AB 725 was written for Bay Area Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks by YIMBY California, a well-heeled group opposed to single-family homes and yards. AB 725 is a de facto, massive up-zoning of thousands of working-class and middle-class California streets — to destroy family homes and make way for pricey apartments. This disastrous ultra-density bill requires
AB 3173, authored by Scott Wiener follower and Assemblymember Richard Bloom of Santa Monica, would reward developers who build excessively small and highly lucrative 80-square-foot luxury micro-units, jamming them into every major city from Fresno to Long Beach to San Diego. We estimate this "housing" will rent for about $1,700 per space, yet will be
Senate Bill 902, authored by the home-and-yard hating state Sen. Scott Wiener, is even worse than his SB 50 neighborhood-bulldozing bill, which we all worked to kill TWICE. And SB 902 is far worse than Wiener's demolition derby bill SB 827, which we all worked hard to successfully kill in 2018. SB 902 requires no
Joel Kotkin has patiently noted to California leaders that their narrative is way off track. He's not guessing, like McKinsey and other corporate players who are paid a lot to give the state legislature bad advice. Kotkin is citing the existing numbers, last year's numbers, the numbers from a few years back.
We are delighted when we see a really good piece of reporting. Compliments to Michael Smolens, columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune, for a job well done in his March 11, 2020 column, "Housing Debate Needs to Get Facts Straight." Smolens delves into the huge variations in claims about the size of California's housing shortage. Those
A game-changing study has found that California's urban areas are fast-approving too much luxury housing, under rules set by the legislature, and most urban areas will hit or far surpass the state's overall housing targets for 2025. Yet this month, and again this summer, we expect state Sen. Scott Wiener to try to upzone California's