Housing, Legislation, Litigation
Letter to city attorney seeks advice on how to deal with mandates from Sacramento that almost everyone agrees SF can never meet. By TIM REDMOND JANUARY 1, 2024 Peskin, Chan want to know if SF can sue the state over impossible housing rules Supervisors Aaron Peskin and...
Housing, Legislation, Opinion
Marin Forum/Teliha Draheim Marin Forum: California’s hidden agenda There is a shortage of affordable housing in California, but there is no shortage of expensive homes. In their flawed assessment of how to solve housing needs, the State manufactured a crisis. Cities...
Housing, Legislation, Opinion
Posted by: Gaetan Lion I am referring to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) housing building mandates. They are called Residential Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA). The latter mandates the State builds 2.5 million (mainly) rental...
Housing, Legislation, Opinion
BY THOMAS D. ELIAS October 27, 2023 Rarely has California seen so concerted and unified a campaign by its elected officials as the drive for housing density conducted by Gov. Gavin Newsom and allied state legislators over the past five years. All along, as legislators...
Housing, Legislation, Opinion
OPINION > LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I read Susan Kirsch’s Marin Voice commentary (“Problems with state housing policy emerging before our eyes,” Oct. 17) with keen interest. It has been claimed that the state’s need for affordable housing is a compelling state interest...
