Senator Wiener’s housing bill won’t boost affordable housing Niccolo Caldararo State Senator Scott Wiener makes a number of assertions about housing needs, and his own legislation (Senate Bill 827), to cure the lack of affordable housing with measures that have limited the rights of citizens to control the growth…
We fought big development before and won, and we will do it again.
Sign the Petition Here: ABOUT SENATE BILL 827: Senate Bill 827 (Wiener) would allow developers to build much denser, taller housing near major transit hubs and transit corridors by exempting “transit-rich housing projects” from local regulations concerning zoning, density, floor area ratio, setbacks, design guidelines, and parking requirements. The bill…
A Letter to Marin Mayors & City Council Members Don’t wait. Initiate!
Opposition SB 827 and SB 828: Housing Legislation Targeting Local Control of Community Planning Susan Kirsch The Marin County Board of Supervisors and many of Marin’s cities are to be congratulated. They followed the direction of the League of California Cities and submitted a Letter of Opposition to Senate…
Where will Scott Wiener’s SB 827 workforce come from?
Where is Scott Wiener going to house all the skilled construction workers his building boom will require? There aren’t enough workers in California to fill the need, thereby necessitating the demand for workers from other states, thereby increasing California’s population in the high density hot spots. Guess how they will…
SB 827: More of the Same, Even with Amendments
SB 827: More of the Same, Even with Amendments By Dick Platkin and Casey Maddren* LA Mayor Eric Garcetti has waffled State Senator Scott Wiener’s SB 827, a bill that would do away with local zoning restrictions in transit-rich areas. Garcetti’s initial concern was adding protection for existing rent-stabilized units.…
LGBT Activists Fight YIMBY Gentrification
“Developers have seized on desperate times by funding the build-now, apologize-later movement called Yes-In-My-Back-Yard (YIMBY). Its followers believe that building more market-rate condos that are unaffordable to most will be the Reagan-esque trickle-down policy to end the housing crisis. Victoria Fierce, a white techie with purple hair who moved to…
This is why you can’t afford to buy a house
http://theweek.com/articles/750564/why-cant-afford-buy-house Americans are desperate for more affordable housing. Yet 1.4 million residential properties were vacant as of 2017’s third quarter. Even more telling: 75 percent of those vacancies weren’t owned by a former occupant, but by an investor. Welcome to America’s new housing crisis. To understand real estate, you first…
Dick Spotswood on Marin’s Housing Crisis
Dick Spotswood: Building our way out of the ‘housing crisis’ “We constantly hear that Marin and the Bay Area are enduring a housing crisis. It’s obvious the price of purchasing a single-family house or condo has skyrocketed in recent decades. The impression development proponents and big-city politicians give is that…
Sustainable TamAlmonte’s letter to the Marin Supervisors SB 827
Sustainable TamAlmonte’s letter to the Marin Supervisors re: their letter opposing SB-827 Sharon Rushton — Mill Valley February 11, 2018 – 4:55 PM February 11, 2018 TO: Marin County Board of Supervisors, 3501 Civic Center Drive, #329, San Rafael, CA 94903 Re: The letter, dated 2/5/18, from the Marin County…
Scott Wiener’s war on local planning
This year the star of the show was State Senator Scott Wiener. He earned that role by authoring SB 35, the controversial “by-right” housing bill that Governor Brown signed into law in September. Like his fellow Yimbys, Wiener believes in a supply-side, build-baby-build solution to California’s housing woes and blames…