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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. 

Let’s learn the facts.
Let’s change the narrative
Let’s expose what is really going on.
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We need our legislators to understand that deregulation of our zoning is a tool that adds profits to investors/developers’ portfolios and does not produce affordable housing.   Also, removing parking minimums, adding density and removing setbacks helps investors not families. Countries worldwide realize that the real threat is investors buying up market rate housing and outbidding families. Our legislators need to understand this reality.
To get a complete picture of what is happening,  please go to our website and listen to the recording of our presentation (February 26,2022), then check out our attached slide presentation so you can better explain to your neighborhood members and friends what is really at play.  https://www.unitedneighbors.net/

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