SB 9 was passed by an Assembly committee this week after a Bay Area state senator bizarrely touted the bill as exempting HOAs and letting cities impose affordability. Wrong! SB 9, correctly explained here, now moves to the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee.

On Saturday, two anti-poverty activists, the esteemed Susie Shannon (her Twitter) and Madalyn Barber (in Cal Matters, she defends Black homeownership) will discuss SB 9 and SB 10.

In 2021, the Seven Bad Bills together recreate the divisive SB 50, wiping out Black and Latino homeowner areas, trashing the California Environmental Quality Act, letting cities override voters, destroying affordable housing to build luxury units, and making parking a misery.

We’ll discuss the looming 2021 legislative timeline and strategies for YOU to stop the Bad Bills:

SB 6: (Kill the Mom & Pops) Jettisons city planning to let developers replace business & shopping areas with EVEN MORE luxury apartment blocks.
SB 8: (Blame the Cities) Extends SB 330 by 5 years, to allow only 5 hearings or workshops on divisive projects; ban downzoning, even for parks, unless another area gets upzoned; let density fans sue taxpayers for $10K per unit if a city rejects a project.
SB 9 (Let’s End Homeownership, by Atkins & Wiener) Crushes single-family zoning, a threat to 7M households at all income levels. Allows SIX NOT FOUR units, no garages and no yards, where 1 home stands now. Wiener has called yards “immoral.”
SB 10: (14-Unit Buildings Everywhere, by Wiener) Lets cities allow 14-unit luxury projects in single-family areas and in commercial areas AND lets cities override land protection laws approved by voters. But only courts can do this!
SB 478: (One-Bedrooms You Can’t Afford, by Wiener) Lets developers destroy multi-unit housing to cram 14 small luxury units on a typical 5,000 sq. ft. lot. Written for well-off Bay Area tech workers, SB 478 will be a high-rent disaster for most others.
AB 1322: (“Voters are Fools”) An absurd and unprecedented plan to let city councils override housing laws approved by voters. Only courts can overturn voters!
AB 1401: (“Just Take the Bus!”) Slashes parking in new buildings. Anti-parking theory, aimed at boosting transit use, had failed well before COVID. This will help nothing.

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We welcome environmental, homeowner, anti-gentrification and community groups. Questions? Email us at: [email protected].