“Playing the Housing Numbers Game, How California’s sixth-cycle RHNA was rigged” presented by Michael Barnes at a Livable California Teleconference 10/29/22.
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YIMBY Pushes Trickle-Down Housing at the Expense of Working-Class Californians
By Housing is a Human Right, March 2022 Corporate YIMBYs have repeatedly tried to frame themselves as housing justice activists, but that’s far from the truth. In fact, a new book titled Selling Off California: The Untold Story reveals that Corporate YIMBYs have deep ties to Big Real Estate and Big Tech, pushing forward their pro-gentrification, trickle-down housing
2022 Proposed California Laws on Housing, CEQA, Environment, Parking, Fire, Broadband: Good and Bad
March 6, 2022 Livable California on March 5 presented to its members a quick look at the 28 most worrisome/most promising laws under consideration by the California State Legislature for 2022 , including a few bills still alive from 2021. Our statewide membership, which is made up of city officials, community organizations, environmental advocates, homeowner
Support AB 854. California Can’t Evict Another 40,000 Working People and Elderly onto the Streets!
January 24, 2022 Join us at Livable California in helping millions of working-class and elderly Californians stay in their homes, by making sure that badly needed AB 854 becomes law. This bill costs you nothing. But it must pass the California State Assembly floor vote this week — or it dies. So please take just
Meet the “Our Neighborhood Voices Initiative” Leaders Jovita Mendoza and John W. Heath
January 4, 2022 Jovita Mendoza is a first-year elected city council member in the Northern California town of Brentwood. She is one of the five formal proponents of the "Our Neighborhood Voices Initiative" who are working hard to find the donor financing needed to meet the huge cost of gathering more than 1 million signatures
Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand Trounces Liam Dillon Over SB 9
Google Image of Redondo Beach, one of the West's most dense cities at 10,623 people per sq mile. December 10, 2021 Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand in a Dec. 9 interview on NPR affiliate KCRW outflanked Los Angeles Times reporter Liam Dillon, who openly defends the hated anti-homeowner law SB 9. In a riveting discussion
How California Cities Can Restrict SB 9 with a Local Ordinance
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
Redondo Beach Mayor Bill Brand Leads Effort to Wrest City Planning Control from the State of California
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
SB 9 Amendment Fails to Protect California Homeowners and Home Buyers from BlackRock and Wall Street
April 25, 2021 In a final effort to get widely criticized SB 9 approved by the California State Assembly, the bill's author announced an amendment — billed as a way to keep Wall Street and BlackRock-like investors from cashing in under SB 9 and outbidding California families trying to buy homes. As seen recently in
L.A. City Council Slams SB 9 and SB 10: Big-City Lobbying Against the Bills Will Begin
(Photo: Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez) August 18, 2021 - The Los Angeles City Council voted today to officially oppose SB 9 and SB 10 in a morning session in which they piled withering criticisms on the bills by state Sen. President Pro Tem Toni Atkins and state Sen. Scott Wiener. The Los