CalHDF Posts
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Victory for the Builder’s Remedy in La Cañada Flintridge
California Housing Defense Fund Scores First Ever Legal Victory for California’s Builder’s Remedy
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Marketing & Communications Intern
CalHDF is a non-profit housing organization that uses legal advocacy and education to hold cities accountable and get housing built. If you have a love of housing, messaging, design, and word play, we can use your help. CalHDF is working on upping our public profile going through a rebranding, redesign, and rethinking of our public-facing
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CalHDF Year in Brief
Happy Holidays from Team CalHDF! With the year coming to a close, it is time to look back at what we’ve accomplished in 2023, and look forward to what we have in store for 2024. This has been a year of growth for CalHDF, armed with our new name and expanded legal firepower, we started
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CalHDF Submits Applications for Novato Affordable Housing Developments
CalHDF and affordable housing developer AMG & Associates, LLC (AMG) have submitted applications to build four 100% affordable housing developments in Novato, a city in Marin County, the sixth richest county in the nation. These developments are made possible by the newly effective state housing law, the Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act, enacted
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Horses and Vineyards and Beaches, Oh My!
Reflecting on the California cities with the least impressive housing performances in 2022, we can identify a few key archetypal patterns and behaviors: Beach towns known for their surf spots, equestrian cities, vineyards, and cities with swaths of unused “scenic” land. Come with us on a scenic (written) tour of California that details the specific
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CalHDF and Pro-Housing Legal Allies File Housing Element Lawsuits against Cities and Counties across Bay Area
In response to the widespread failure by Bay Area cities and counties to meet the January 31 deadline for adopting their sixth cycle housing element updates, three California pro-housing legal nonprofits are announcing an effort to sue cities across the region. As of Friday, February 3, 2023, Californians for Homeownership, California Housing Defense Fund, and
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CaRLA is Now CalHDF
What’s in a name? A LOT if it leads to confusion. While our mission is to advocate and educate legally on behalf of California renters, we didn’t think California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund accurately portrayed our mission or our work – and it was also a mouthful even for us. So it is
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Another Year in the Books – 2022 Holiday Soiree
Thanks to everyone who came to this year’s holiday soiree! It was a HUGE success and we loved reconnecting with all of our friends and supporters. It was refreshing to see so much support for what we do and more importantly a reminder that the work we do matters. For those who could not make
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CaRLA is Suing Santa Clara County over NIMBY Zoning
On Thursday, September 15, 2022, CaRLA joined with co-petitioner Kenneth Shotts, a political scientist at Stanford, to sue Santa Clara County for their illegal downzoning of the newly created Upper San Juan Residential District (SJRD), an area right outside of Stanford in the unincorporated area of Santa Clara County. The Board caved to NIMBY outrage