Please Donate Now to LivableCalifornia.org and join our SB 50 Teleconference on Saturday at 10 am (details below).

Awesome, folks! Sen. Scott Wiener's disastrous experiment, SB 50, was killed in Sacramento today. (Below, we thank senators who voted against, or abstained.) Up top, we thank you! The tenant, social justice, homeowner, environmental, neighborhood, and local government groups who fought SB 50. What a coalition!

We expect Sen. Wiener to use a surprise bill to revive his thrice-failed idea of mass upzoning. We’ve tried to educate Sen. Wiener that California cities are racing forward on housing approvals, and VERY FEW populous areas still lag on their state-required housing goals.

Sen. Wiener is trapped in a 4-year-old idea time has passed by. We can’t let him waste 2020. We must support bills that fund & construct low-income housing, like SB 795 by Sen. Beall.

We MUST grow our small fund to fight the millions behind Wiener as he revives his dead idea. Please donate to LivableCalifornia.org, and join us on Feb. 1, Saturday at 10 am, for:

SB 50 Teleconference: It’s Dead! Son of SB 50 - How Community Leaders & City Officials Can Disempower Wiener and Pass a Real Housing Bill

Agenda:

How do we kill Son of SB 50 if it arises as a new bill in February or a “gut and amend” bill this summer?
How do we empower GOOD housing bills such as SB 795? How do we refocus the legislature on ways that help, not hurt?

Here's your call-in info for Saturday:

Via Computer: https://zoom.us/j/6377599629

Dial in: +1 720 707 2699 Meeting ID: 637 759 9629

One tap mobile: +17207072699,,6377599629#

At the teleconference, we’ll try out a new "vote by text" system to get your input on issues. To be included in “vote by text” on Saturday, just text the word "livable" to 21000 right now.

We have other good news:

- A fair, balanced story ran about Livable California in the Mercury News! Much appreciated because most California media have been dead wrong about key fundamentals in this debate.

We warmly thank these state senators:

“No” voting senators Ben Allen, Pat Bates. Andreas Borgeas, Bill Dodd, Maria Elena Durazo, Steve Glazer, Bob Hertzberg, Jerry Hill, Hannah-Beth Jackson, Brian Jones, Holly Mitchell, Anthony Portantino, Susan Rubio, Henry Stern and Scott Wilk. And senators who abstained, Bob Archuleta, Steven Bradford, Ling Ling Chang, Mike Morrell and Tom Umberg.

Livable California is a non-profit statewide group of community leaders, activists and local elected officials. We believe in local answers to the housing affordability crisis. Our robust fight requires trips to Sacramento & a lobbyist going toe-to-toe with power. Please donate generously to LivableCalifornia.org here.

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