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, Litigation
BY BRANDON PHO May 17, 2023 Apartment complexes in Santa Ana on May 18, 2020. Credit: JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC Officials in one of Orange County’s most progressive cities might be poised to exempt themselves from state housing mandates. While neighboring towns like...
Housing, Litigation, Opinion
The California state Capitol building. (Photo by David Paul Morris/Getty Images) By SUSAN KIRSCH | April 21, 2023 at 3:43 p.m. You don’t think of the typical Californian giving in to a mantra of “there’s nothing we can do” or “our hands are tied.” But the threats of a...