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To get your letter opposing a bad bill read by the most powerful committee, you must use the State Portal, a Byzantine, bizarre barrier to reaching key legislators. So LEARN IT here. Using The Portal is crucial.
Fixing SB 79 – Needed Cleanup Legislation to Avoid Unintended Impacts and Ensure Affordable Housing: Solutions suggested:
2026 Landlord Tenant Laws:
AB628, Habitable units must have working stove and fridge
SB 610, Clarifies responsibilities after natural disaster?
AB 1414, Bulk internet opt-out rights
AB 246, Social Security Tenant Protections Act
AB 414, Security deposit modernization
Full Interview with State Sens. Wahab and Wiener
The California Agenda: Sacramento Summit
Stop SB79 statewide rally
Edit“Media”National Anti-Upzoning Campaign Posters:
https://votersrevenge.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/anti-upzoning.pdf
Hearing on SF Parks Alliance – Fiscal Mismanagement:
item 11 starts at 51:42 //sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/50435?view_id=192&redirect=true&entrytime=3083&stoptime=17003&autostart=0&embed=1
Our energy is going to positive actions like RECALLENGARDIO
Catalysts: Messaging for the Masses
Links to Recall Engardio Supporters:
Recall Joel Engardio – D-4 Traffic – YouTube
Recall Joel Engardio – D-4 Traffic
Recalls are Us Channel on Vimeo:
Lisa on Engardio Recall
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1098045725
Otto on Engardio:
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1098058926
Why Recall Engardio:
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1098673743
Engardio on the Compromise – Youtube
Stop SB 79
From United Neighbors
Our Brief But Spectacular is shining a light on three aspiring builders from a hands-on vocational construction program in Salinas, California. Many of the students there are pushing past significant personal obstacles as they learn to frame walls, pour foundations and design homes with sustainability in mind.
FLIP CONGRESS ! Human Banner on Ocean Beach
Trailer for “Small is Beautiful”
Sonoma is the home of many vineyards that are going away if the valley is developed. Contact for details on screenings on this page: trailer ( has disappeaered)
Video and interactive graphic on Homelessness in San Francisco:
interactive page: housing-sim.com
Albert Chow Asks : ”What is there to talk about at this point?”
Weaving Waymo: A reason to keep them out of cities with overpasses. The technology appears to be confused by the overpass. Does not know which road it is on. LA is keeping Waymos off of their freeways
SANDAG Board of Diretors Meeting (March 22, 2024)
https://youtu.be/arKeg7IFk7w?si=4KOUbxDKnmwdX60z
Interviews with President Peskin on some ballot issues:
Conservatorship:
https://youtu.be/lKRj_ARX9c8
Legacy Business:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9HApAeOKCs
ABC interviews with the candidates:
https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/02/san-francisco-mayor-video-interviews-2024/?utm_campaign=SF+Standard+Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=SF+Standard&utm_content=hero
Tumlin Talks: Tumlin admits his goal is not to help the MUNI riders. His goal is to make us all equally miserable. How do we get rid of him? He has been on the case for a long time. Here is a treatise written by Gabriel Matcalf in 2002 with edits by Tumlin. The Path to a Livable City includes a lot of familiar names. The SF Bike Coaltion was rolling in the dough then as it is now, coming from devious developers who want to clear cut our cities
The Builders Remedy
https://www.youtube.com/@otisscarecroe4863?app=desktop
Plan Bay Area Hoax:
Fees and Lawsuits Fueling California Housing’s Cost Crisis:
California Insider with Jennifer Hernandez
President Peskin at CSFN General Assembly
“One of these cannot be True”
CBSNews: Commercial Real Estate; Master of the Mind and Converting empty office buildings into housing.
State-Mandated Housing Coming to Your Town | Christine Epperly
Effort to kill the ‘death tax’ makes its way through the California Legislature
fox40news – excerpt
Some legislators want to repeal a part of a measure that charges the heirs of a home the property taxes based on the current value of the home. SCA-4
Scott Wiener on Dr. Phil
Who supports this theme?
If you investigate who holds control of The Atlantic you will see that Laurene Powell Jobs and her organization, Emerson Collective , is a major shareholder, according to Wikipedia…(more)
We do not have a housing supply problem. We have an affordable housing problem. Investors are buying up our housing stock and we have no way to outbid them for homes.
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Sick Cities by Professor Condon
Vancouver’s high-profile professor, planner and author, Patrick Condon, told more than 160 California community leaders at the Livable California Teleconference on Feb. 6, 2021 that “upzoning” of neighborhoods drives up housing costs and cannot create affordable housing. Link to the video
See New Actions for 2024 Ballot Initiative :
https://ourneighborhoodvoices.com/
Link to Bill Brand and LA Times reporter radio podcast discussion on impact of SB 9 and misinformation promulgated as a duplex bill.. Bill succinctly explains why SB 9 is bad for cities and why local zoning control is essential. Our Neighborhood Voices at CSFN November General Assembly
Exposing Wall Street Destruction Of America’s Housing Market
Sharon Byrne of Santa Barbara: The Housing Crisis
Costa Mesa Mayor Jim Righeimer explains what housing density bills like SB9 and SB10 may do to suburbia in California if the voters do not support the effort to override them. See stopsacramento.org for details on the effort to Stop the Sacramento Land Grab.
Links to Catalysts films
What about Water?
Inflated RHNA Numbers Lead to Ruin
Ad running in SacBee: bit.ly/GovNewsomAd
Can California support 10 Million More?
State Water Plan vs. State Housing Plan
Can-California-Support-10-Million-More.pptx
Catalysts in California Times #2 Featuring Mike Griffiths founder of California Cities for Local Control
Mike Griffiths, Torrance City Council member and founder of California Cities for Local Control doesn’t think state legislators set sound housing policy when they make sweeping mandates for communities they have never stepped foot in and know nothing about.
Griffiths and his all-volunteer team have recruited dozens of cities and hundreds of city council members to sign a Resolution objecting to the state’s top- down, one-size-fits-all mandates.
Griffiths explains the Resolution campaign in an interview with Guy Meyer, host of Catalysts in California Times.
SB 9 and SB10, moving through the Sacramento Legislature in 2021, threaten every single family home in the state. Find out what you can do to Stop SB9 and SB10: https://www.discoveryink.net/wp/petitions/
write letters and call your state reps to let thme know how you feel about the bills:
Soldout on KQED – podcast
Erin Baldassari and Molly Solomon
How Moms 4 Housing Changed Laws and Inspired a Movement