“They” are the corporate interests driving housing policy, and “they” are using well-meaning political activists and ambitious politicians, who have seen the housing crisis grow under their watch, to push their agenda.

“They” are the YIMBY apologists who have come after single-family neighborhoods; funding the campaigns of politicians willing to write laws that put profits before the public interest.

“They” are the Silicon Valley short-term vacation rental investors, who are depleting our housing supply; funding the campaigns of politicians willing to let laws go unenforced, even if it means taking 16,000 San Diego homes off the market in the midst of a housing supply crisis impacting both homeowners and renters.

And now, “they,” the speculators behind SB330 and a newly-revived SB50, are working to end single-family-zoning and let investors:

• Build four-plex units in single-family neighborhoods
• Ignore parking and affordable housing requirements, and
• Completely ignore California environmental protections under CEQA.

How does this happen?

I hope you join me.

P.S. - And here is the irony. The YIMBY’s SB50 (Wiener Bill) exempts small cities like Coronado and Del Mar, while targeting middle- and working-class single family neighborhoods in San Diego. Hypocrisy knows no boundaries.

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