Please join us this week in our special matching donation drive for February 2022!

We expect a roller coaster ride as the State of California attempts to take more and more zoning and planning powers away from cities and communities, in a bid to direct your area’s local growth from the Capitol.

We have a long list of reasons why that’s a bad idea, one that is harming low-income Californians, the environment, and the street on which you live.

Please join our effort right now, by donating to Livable California right here. Your generous donation will be matched up to $1,000.

We are proud to have you with us. We’ll get together for a statewide meeting this weekend, February 19 at 10 am, to discuss the growing popularity of remote work and what it means to dense cities and the suburbs. Watch for that invite tomorrow!

We’re in touch with thousands of city officials, neighborhood leaders, voters and community advocates. Their widely shared key issues are:

State lawmakers are wrong in claiming market-rate housing trickles down to the poor. It clearly does not.
Affordable housing has been neglected by the State, which must dedicate new funding. We don’t see nearly enough commitment from the Capitol.
Paving over the urban tree canopy in California does not, in fact, fight climate change. It fuels higher temperatures and deadly heat islands in California cities.
Distant state lawmakers should not dictate what can be built, or paved over, on your block.
Letting developers slash parking doesn’t get multi-tasking Californians out of cars. Instead, developers profit more, and they make family life much tougher.

Californians didn’t ask the State to become a vast and distant City Hall that they can’t access.

We at Livable California are small fry fighting very deep pockets in Sacramento. So again, please join us at Livable California, and please give here today to help our matching donation drive succeed!