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A Note from Our Neighborhood Voices: We don’t need to destroy single-family neighborhoods or local democracy to build the affordable housing our communities need. We believe that local residents and neighbors know their needs best – not Sacramento politicians or for-profit developers. If you agree, join us using the form below. This article originally appeared…

Note from Our Neighborhood Voices: Our “rebellion” is a grassroots movement made up of local elected officials, community leaders and neighbors who all believe that we don’t need to destroy local democracy to build the affordable housing our state needs. Tens of thousands of Californians have joined us because we know that neighbors should be…

Note from Our Neighborhood Voices: A developer who has no experience building anything is using laws passed by Scott Wiener and California YIMBY to shoehorn an 8-story apartment building into a single-family neighborhood. He doesn’t need to pay a single dime to fund traffic improvements, transit, police or schools. And local representatives have no say!…

Hearing, data show how the state’s ‘streamlining’ supply-side approach is failing. This article originally appeared in 48 Hills By: Zelda Bronstein Since the 1970s, apostles of growth have decried local control of land use as the evil that has to be stamped out if housing is ever to become abundant and broadly affordable. Today the…

Note from Our Neighborhood Voices: Sacramento politicians wrote a blank check to developers – and one of the first to cash it is a Russian oligarch, and associate of Vladimir Putin. You can’t make this stuff up. The oligarch is using the so-called “Builders Remedy” to squeeze in a massive high-rise in Menlo Park at…

A Note from Our Neighborhood Voices: California residents aren’t against building more affordable housing – and neither are we. In fact our initiative exempts 100% affordable projects. But we are against Sacramento allowing for-profit developers to bulldoze and gentrify single-family neighborhoods for profit. We believe residents have the right to have a say about the…

Note from Our Neighborhood Voices: A newly-proposed project at Willow and Middlefield roads would rise to 328-feet – taller than the Statue of Liberty, and Stanford’s Hoover Tower. This massive project would tower over the surrounding single-family neighborhoods, and would add to the already insane amount of rush hour traffic in the area. This development…

Note from Our Neighborhood Voices: Californians aren’t against building more affordable housing – and neither are we. In fact our initiative exempts 100% affordable projects. But we are against Sacramento allowing for-profit developers to bulldoze and gentrify single-family neighborhoods for profit. We believe residents have the right to have a say about the future of…

Note from Our Neighborhood Voices: We all know we need more affordable housing all over California – especially in San Francisco. We just believe that Sacramento politicians should not give for-profit developers a blank check to build luxury towers without ANY community input. We believe neighbors and their local elected leaders have the right to…