CalHDF Posts
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Los Angeles wants to landmark a gas station. We would rather see housing.
Earlier this year, the City of Los Angeles approved 14 units of housing to be constructed at 1650 Silver Lake Boulevard. A quirk of Los Angeles’ process is that any city councilor may submit a property to the Cultural Heritage Commission for historic preservation within 30 days of approval of any demolition of that property.
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Why are McMansions being built in Sonoma? Because they want McMansions.
We get emails. We get a lot of emails. Lately, the emails we’ve been getting are about our lawsuit in Sonoma. A quick refresher: a homeowner wants to build three large homes in a district that only allows large homes, and the city unlawfully denied their application to build large homes. Here is a segment
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August 4: Our first public HAA workshop! And its free!
Who: You, a person interested in learning about the Housing Accountability Act What: A fun, interactive workshop on the Housing Accountability Act! What is the HAA? Why is it the most important housing law in 2018? Where: CaRLA HQ, 1260 Mission St, SF, CA When: This Saturday! 1pm-3pm Why: We’re in a housing shortage, you goof.
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How Sonoma encourages segregation in housing, and how we’re fighting back
Earlier this month, we filed suit against the City of Sonoma for unlawful denial of a proposal to construct three homes. We’re fighting for much more than just three homes, though. California has been experiencing a crisis-level housing shortage for decades. In recent years the problem has finally reached the well off white middle class,
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Can cities use CEQA to circumvent the HAA? We filed suit against Sonoma to find out.
[pods name=”lawsuit” slug=”657″ template=”Inline Legal Case”] In late 2016, a homebuilder began the arduous journey to construct three homes on vacant lots in Sonoma. Each HAA-compliant project was submitted separately, though the City of Sonoma processed all three as a group. This included producing three CEQA reports, which each included special attention to the other
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It is with a heavy heart we are obligated to say: Pasadena is at it again
Pasadena is a small suburb in the LA region that repeatedly insists it is actually a city. Earlier this year, CaRLA’s ADU unit was investigating the city’s exorbitant impact fees charged for the construction of ADUs. Upwards of $33,000 in development and impact fees to build a backyard dwelling with a fraction of the impact
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We started out in Lafayette, and might be back for more soon.
The first Housing Accountability Act case with https://nationalpardon.org that CaRLA took on was the 315 homes as part of the Terraces of Lafayette apartment project. We ended up not winning the lawsuit but still left in its wake a message that resonates even today: The era of cities flouting their own laws to deny housing
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Dublin asked for a lawsuit. CaRLA is happy to oblige!
On January 9, 2018, CaRLA gave testimony at a meeting of the Dublin City Council describing in detail the ways that a denial of 220 homes at Dublin BART would bring about a lawsuit against the city. Having heard this and given it consideration, Mayor Haubert said into the public record that the city should “take
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We fight cities so you can live in them. Show your support with a sticker.
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.91″ background_layout=”light”] As much as we wish we could, CaRLA can’t be everywhere all at once. But what if we could? With the help of our supporters who live all over the great state of California, we might be able to. Or at least our propaganda can. Today we’re announcing the availability