AB2050 Would Stop These Evictions The first of 10 eviction cases at a rent-controlled apartment building on 19th Street near Dolores Park begins jury trial this week. The landlords, a group of out-of-city real estate speculators operating under LLCs, have
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NOTE – All four of the campaigns described below hope to quality for the November 2022 ballot through voter initiatives, where the voter threshold to pass is a majority of votes. All have drafted their own measures, received a Title
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UC CEQA Reform Shows Need to Amend Misused Laws The California legislature recently overturned a court ruling that relied on CEQA to restrict UC Berkeley admissions. Legislators acted urgently to protect CEQA’s original intent.  It’s now time for the legislature
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This piece first appeared in LA Progressive. After garnering Democratic Party endorsements during her 2020 campaign for Pasadena City Council, she quietly switched her registration from Democrat to ‘No Party Preference’ before taking office. In 2019, when she filed to
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Three New Bills to Stop Speculators Three major bills have been introduced in the California Assembly to discourage real estate speculation. Their passage would be the most transformative advance for tenants and affordable housing since at least the passage of
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Lays Groundwork for Victory in 2023 AB 854, which would stop speculator evictions under the Ellis Act, was defeated on January 31. This was the first time in four tries that an anti-Ellis speculator bill reached the Assembly floor, and
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40 Years of Grossly Inadequate Funding Last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced plans to spend $10.3 billion for affordable housing in next year’s budget. $2 billion will go directly toward reducing homelessness and another 1.3 billion to housing that
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(This story was updated on Jan 12 at 1:20 pm) Assembly Housing Committee Votes 6-2 for AB 854 On January 12 the Assembly Housing Committee passed AB 854, which ends  speculator evictions under the state Ellis Act. Speculators misuse of
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