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Testify Against SB 902 and SB 1120 at Sacramento’s Virtual Hearing Tuesday Aug. 18, 10 am. Get in the phone queue at about 9:30 am Tuesday. Urge the Assembly Appropriations Committee to oppose SB 1120! Call back later in the day (it’s pure guesswork as to when, see agenda below) to testify against SB 902!
Our Letters Against 9 Bad Bills & Our Letters For 2 Good Bills August, 2020 Livable California submitted letters to Assembly or Senate policy committees in May, June and July. Some bills were amended later in committees, so bill specifics below may have changed. See more recent info on amended bills HERE, and on
LA City Councilman Paul Koretz speaks to the impacts of SB 1120 during the Aug 15, 2020 "SB 1120 Town Hall" Organized by South LA Alliance for Locally Planned Growth. https://youtu.be/gHz2hKJmoNo Former LA City Councilwoman Jan Perry speaks about the impacts of SB 1120 during the Aug 15, 2020 "SB 1120 Town
Committee Addresses to Send Letters Against 9 Bad Bills Below! Hearing Dates are Soon, but Unknown Due to COVID! Updated 7/29/20 1:15 PM __________________________________________________ Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee HEARD: SB 1085 Oppose - Heard Wednesday July 29,2020 SB 1299 Support - Heard Wednesday July 29,2020 Hon. David Chiu, Chair Assembly Housing and Community
That's right, you testify against SB 1120 and SB 902 on Tuesday Aug. 18, calling in to the Assembly Appropriations Committee to tell legislators that the two senate bills will put every home in their own district on the chopping block. (We explain how you call in to testify. CLICK HERE!) We promise that
Map: The El Camino strip runs 43 miles through Silicon Valley and could provide 250,000 units of housing without displacing any existing homes or apartments. And there are 543 miles of strip in the inner Bay Area lined with 16,000 acres of underused commercial land with capacity for 1.6M new households. [Editor's Note: In an
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
Appropriations Suspense Results and Actions to Take Assembly Appropriations Committee Do Pass or Do Pass as Amended – 244 (75.5%) Held – 79 (24.5%) Total – 323 See the full Assembly results list here Senate Appropriations Committee Do Pass or Do Pass as Amended – 368 (75%) Held – 123 (25%) Total – 491 See
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Updates on two major bills, AB 2053 and AB 2011 as we go into the legislatures summer recess AB 2053 is Dead – sort of. It failed passage in the Senate Governance and Finance Committee, but could come back this session as a “gut and amend” or next session as an new bill. We