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…
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…
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…
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…
League of California Cities Opposes SB 827
The League of California Cities opposes SB 827 (Wiener), which would exempt certain housing projects from locally developed and adopted height limitations, densities, parking requirements, and design review standards. Specifically, SB 827 would undermine locally adopted General Plans, Housing Elements (which are certified by the Department of Housing and Community…