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California AG Bonta Supports ‘Justice-Involved Individuals’ for HUD-Subsidized Housing

June 11, 2024 7:30 am

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced his support Monday for “justice-involved individuals’ need for safe, affordable housing with housing providers’ interest in maintaining the safety of their tenants and staffs.” Most Californians would tell AG Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom,...

Gov. Newsom’s and AG Bonta’s Affordable Housing Shakedown Scheme

April 25, 2024 8:59 amApril 25, 2024 8:22 pm

“Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Rob Bonta, and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), announced a settlement with the city of Malibu to bring the city into compliance with the state’s Housing Element Law,” Governor...

Legislation to Fast-Track Land Rezoning Supposed to Increase Affordable Housing Availability

April 24, 2024 2:45 amApril 24, 2024 2:46 am

Senate Bill 4, known as the Affordable Housing on Faith Lands Act, was billed by its backers as a tool to increase affordable housing availability in California by fast-tracking developers’ ability to rezone land owned by faith-based organizations or nonprofit...

SF Board Of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin Announces Run For Mayor

April 4, 2024 2:46 pmApril 4, 2024 2:46 pm

San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin announced on Wednesday night that he would officially be running in the 2024 San Francisco Mayoral race, facing off against longtime political rival Mayor London Breed and former fellow supervisor Mark Farrell,...

SF Board Of Supes Pres. Aaron Peskin Expected to Announce Run For Mayor

March 4, 2024 12:05 pmMarch 4, 2024 12:06 pm

During the weekend, several sources said that San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin will soon be joining the San Francisco Mayoral race. If so, he joins an already crowded field which includes current Mayor London Breed, former Mayor...

More Affordable-Housing Bonds?

February 8, 2024 2:14 pmFebruary 8, 2024 2:55 pm

On March 5 San Francisco voters will decide whether their city should issue $300 million in bonds to subsidize the construction of affordable housing. The matter is likely to be approved, given the voters’ track record on similar measures. In 2015 they authorized $310...

Inclusionary Zoning Would Undermine Sacramento’s Recent Housing Reforms

January 24, 2024 2:45 amJanuary 24, 2024 2:46 am

Sacramento recently took a major step toward fixing its housing crisis by adopting the “Missing Middle Housing Plan,” which will allow apartments to be built in single-family neighborhoods. In urban-planning lingo, this is “upzoning,” which raises the density limits in...