Thomas Elias: Most Californians support density, but maybe anti-density measure will gain steam
Note from ONV: Our initiative is made up of tens of thousands of neighbors, local elected officials and community leaders who all know that we need to build more affordable housing – in fact our initiative exempts 100% affordable projects. But where and how that new housing gets built matters – and we think those […]
Mercury News: Opinion: Popular California housing narrative upended by planning expert
This article was originally published in the Mercury News. By Susan Candell California clearly has a housing affordability crisis. Unfortunately, the response from Sacramento politicians has only made the problem worse. Cities and resident groups are now pushing back, and a recent court filing by one of the country’s leading planning experts confirms their contention that state […]
UCLA Professor and World Planning Expert Explains Why Recent One-Size-Fits-All Housing Laws Won’t Actually Solve the Affordable Housing Crisis
From the study: Urban economics and branches of mainstream economics – what we call the ‘housing as opportunity’ school of thought – have been arguing that shortages of affordable housing in dense agglomerations represent a fundamental barrier to economic development. Housing shortages are considered to limit migration into thriving cities, curtailing their expansion potential, generating […]
Common Dreams: A Lack of Supply Isn’t Causing Our Housing Crisis
Note from Our Neighborhood Voices: More and more Californians are waking up to the fact that “trickle down housing” has not made all housing more affordable like Sacramento politicians and for-profit developers tried to tell us it would. Now they are telling us that the “solution” to our affordable housing crisis is to destroy local […]
CalMatters: How a ballot measure and population revisions complicate California housing war
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 […]
Mercury News: Elias: California’s rebellion against housing density mandates has begun
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 […]
LA Times: This L.A. developer aims to tear down homes to build apartments where the city doesn’t want them
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! […]
ONV Proponent Kalimah Priforce’s Powerful Talk with KCBS On the Need to Restore Local Democracy
48 Hills: Lots of housing laws. Not much housing
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 […]
Owner of Sunset campus, who intends to build massive towers, is the son of Putin’s former energy minister, via Palo Alto Daily Post
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 […]