Produced by Residents 4 Localized Affordable Neighborhood Development

Needed Cleanup Legislation to Avoid Unintended Impacts and Ensure Affordable Housing – Needed Cleanup Legislation to Avoid Unintended Impacts and Ensure Affordable Housing.

Help Residents for Localized Affordable Neighborhood Development (R-Land) lobby for sensible fixes to SB 79 so that this new law works for, rather than against the provision of affordable housing, doesn’t bankrupt cities, and doesn’t foster higher density development in Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones, thus increasing safety hazards. SB 79 sounds good, but will have horrible real world consequences and needs major fixes. This video provides suggestions for legislative fixes to avoid the unintentional consequences of SB 79. Call your State Legislator and ask them to sponsor and support legislation to:

1. Exempt cities with Certified Housing Elements since they have already planned where to put needed housing and how to meet affordability targets.
2. Close the luxury loophole and actually promote affordable housing development by requiring that any SB 79 buildings meet the affordability targets cities are required to meet in their Housing Elements. If the State says 40% of new units in a city should be affordable then 40% of the all units in any SB 79 building in that city should be required to be affordable, otherwise SB 79 undercuts the ability of cities to promote the production of affordable housing.
3. Exempt high fire hazard areas from SB 79. Increased density in high fire areas is a disaster waiting to happen.
4. Provide funding for the infrastructure SB 79 will require as a result of SB 79 densification of single-family neighborhoods, rather than in areas cities have identified as best able to handle increased density.