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Threat To Single Family Neighborhoods is Real
Senate housing bills SB 9 and SB 10 that would eliminate local zoning control are moving forward and are scheduled to be heard in the Appropriations Committee on Monday, May 10. At the hearing the bill will either be sent to a full senate vote or it will go into the Suspense file and be heard on May 20. More information on each bill is below. There is still time to send a letter to the state portal to register your opinion at: https://calegislation.lc.ca.gov/Advocates/
Information below about each bill is provided by Livable California, a nonpartisan statewide coalition working to stop these bills and whose work BHA supports.
SB 9 (Let’s End Homeownership, by Toni Atkins and Scott Wiener) Crushes single-family zoning in California, a threat to 7 million homeowners at all income levels. Wiener has called yards and single-family homes “immoral.” SB 9 allows 4 market-rate homes where 1 home now stands (or up to 6 units, if developers use an obscure “two-step” that the bill allows). SB 9 requires NO affordable units. It clearly opens all single-family streets to the unchecked, greedy and disruptive investor speculation pouring into the single-family-home market today. SB 9 is the beginning of the end of homeownership in California.
SB 10 (10-Unit Buildings Everywhere, by Scott Wiener) Allows any city council to overturn voter-approved ballot measures that protect open space, shorelines and other lands — killing a 108-year-old California voter right. Equally horrifying, SB 10 allows any city council to rezone almost any parcel to allow 10-unit luxury apartments, overriding all zoning including single-family and commercial, inviting the demolition and gentrification of older, diverse, multi-family and single-family areas. It requires NO affordable units. Like SB 9 — it’s ugly cousin — SB 10 opens neighborhoods to unchecked speculation.
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UNARMED CRISIS RESPONSE
On October 14, 2020, the Los Angeles City Council adopted a report from the Ad Hoc Committee on Police Reform relative to developing an unarmed model of crisis response. This report directed the Office of the City Administrative Officer (CAO) to assist in implementing a pilot program for mobile crisis response modeled after the Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets (CAHOOTS) Program in Eugene, Oregon.
The CAO is also soliciting feedback from residents who live or work in Los Angeles, community organizations, and other non-governmental entities to help inform the parameters of an unarmed crisis response program within the City. Please submit responses through the form provided no later than Sunday, May 9.
Click the link here to fill out the feedback form.
You may access the motions, reports, and other documents related to this program on the City Clerk's website here. Click the envelope at the top of the page to subscribe to updates via email.
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