Forums, News & YouTube
♦ See YouTube of Sacramento Community Forum on Protecting Neighborhoods, Trees, and Affordable Housing under SB 9, SB 10, and the General Plan.
♦ATTACKS ON CA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS
Click to watch the April 4 Livable California forum on current attacks against the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). In fact, CEQA does not prevent housing to any significant extent – it is for environmental protection and citizen participation in government.
See: “CEQA protects California despite special interests’ “Big Lie“
♦ United Neighbors Power Point
Is California housing policy helping California residents?
“Fiasco Foretold,” as L.A. Planners Push for Trickle-Down Housing (11/13/21)
If Governor Newsom deregulates the California housing market, Wall Street wins.
House hunters are increasingly going up against hedge funds in a hot housing market
Where is the Unbiased Journalism? Tell Sac Bee to stop running only biased pro-upzoning articles, like this one. Send a letter to the editor & email editors: mbreton@sacbee.com, johman@sacbee.com.
July 12 State Capitol Press Conference
June 30 Forum on SB 9 & SB 10 with Assemblymember Kevin McCarty
The Fight Against Gentrification
Green or grey? Yards or concrete? Click for how upzoning might look.
The Tax Implications of SB 9 & 10
What’s Missing in the City’s Plan for R-1 Upzoning?
Bay Area cities have seen their state housing targets. Many are shocked — and appealing.
Orange County cities sue state over ‘erroneous’ homebuilding goals
Lawsuit contends state housing officials grossly overestimated projected housing needs.
CA New Population Estimates and Implications
What are the impacts of General Plan on sewer system, water, and runoff?
‘Granny Flat’ Eyesore: Complaints About Oversize Backyard Projects
Upzoning of existing neighborhoods is bad for the environment.
● The Future of Sacramento Neighborhoods: Who will decide? Recording of April 15 Community Forum
Saturday, April 3, 2021 Livable California Online forum focused on proposed upzoning in Sacramento. Click to view.
For more articles and information, click on Resources.
Articles
Built-To-Rent Suburbs are Poised to Spread Across the U.S. Wall Street Journal 6-7-21
Zoning changes could put a hurt on Black homeownership. CalMatters 6-4-21
Goldman Sachs Backs Single-Family Rental Fund for Small Investors Wall Street Journal 6-1-21
Oppose SB 9 and SB 10: Why Do Politicians Want to Take Away Homeownership from Communities of Color? Livable California 5-27-21
Op-Ed: Taking Sacramento to 100% Electrification – Is SMUD ready to do this?
Valley Community Newspapers 5-13-21
Housing Is A Human Right Opposes California’s SB 9 and SB 10 | Housing Is A Human Right (housinghumanright.org)
Eliminating natural gas in housing could cost $5.9B–Just in San Fran! Capital Review 5-2-21
Facebook’s housing echo chamber, 48 Hills 4-22-21
Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Seeks to Ease Housing Shortage With Looser Zoning Rules. Wall Street Journal 4-7-21
If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pension fund. Wall Street Journal 4-4-21
Not so Fast Open Zoning Won’t Solve Housing Pains, Inside Sacramento April 2021
The American Dream is dying a slow death in California. The Marin Post 3-28-21
Local Zoning changes may Trigger Higher Property Taxes for some Homeowners,
CalTax 3-12-21
In a first for California, Sacramento poised to allow apartments in single-family home neighborhoods LA Times interviews Save Sacramento Neighborhoods advocates. 2-10-21
Vancouver’s Smartest Planner, Prof. Patrick Condon, Says Upzoning is a Costly Mistake Livable California 2-6-21
Equity, Affordability, and Upzoning by Chris Jones, East Sacramento News 2-4-21
[CA] Population Estimates and Implications. Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy January 2021
Guest view: Truth in Housing
Register Guard 12-17-20.
CA Housing Need Greatly Overestimated. Embarcadero Institute 12-2020
How corporations are buying up houses — robbing families of the American Dream
New York Post, 7-18-20
Millennials want a single-family house, even if it means a long commute HousingWire.com 11-22-19
Minneapolis’s Residential Upzoning Risks Unintended Consequences. The Planning Report 6-17-19
Deregulatory Upzoning: “Cui Bono?” Livable Portland Blog 3-6-19
Other Resources
Water and Housing Needs Collide in California’s Severe Drought
Myth Busters about Eliminating Single-Family Zoning & Neighborhoods.
The Only Thing Worse
than a NIMBY is a YIMBY.
Misinformation from the Mayor.
Livable California presentations on YouTube.
Power Point on Impacts of proposed General Plan
Forum on Housing Solutions. (Video)
5-27-21
The Future of Sacramento Neighborhoods Community Forum
(Video) 4-17-21
Debate on proposed General Plan upzoning
(Video) 2-17-21
Save Sacramento Neighborhoods facebook.
Sacramento City Council Contact information
Chris Jones interviewed on Capital Public radio. 3-9-21 Starts about 15 minutes in.
Elmhurst Neighborhood Association letter
Neighbor Comments
February 10, 2021 letter
Nextdoor post 2-21-21
(Note many neighbors have written to the City Council. More letters will be posted soon.)
Save Sacramento Neighborhoods 