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South LA will be obliterated by SB 1120, the Scott Wiener-Toni Atkins gift to market-rate developers now rushing toward approval under cover of COVID-19.

On Saturday, heavyweight L.A. elected officials will slam SB 1120. Zoom into the South LA Town Hall to Oppose SB 1120 and other bad bills (call-in is below)!

This week, South L.A. Black neighborhood leaders tried to speak against SB 1120 in Sacramento, and some had their mics cut off. On Aug. 15 they'll be heard at the town hall hosted and sponsored by South LA Alliance for Locally Planned Growth.

Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins dismissed critics, saying funding won't help the affordability crisis — only expensive market-rate housing will do the trick.

Respectfully, President Pro Tem, no, that is not reality.

In 2011 Atkins voted to defund affordable housing. (Chart below.) Yet when state revenue hit record highs, Senate leader Atkins never put back the billions of dollars.

Atkins insists today: "If money and subsidies were the thing that would get us the production and more housing units ... I think that’s actually easier. It wasn’t previously, but it's actually been easier to find subsidies and money."

Respectfully, no. The state's FAIL can’t be fixed by current, modest spending.

Now their plan is to destroy working-class & middle-class streets to build pricey housing. Black, Latino and Asian SoCal are on the chopping block:

  • LA's heavily Black South L.A.
  • L.A.’s heavily Latino Eastside
  • San Fernando Valley, the most diverse 1.7M community in the U.S.
  • SG Valley's heavily Asian/Latino: Arcadia, Whittier, Hacienda Heights
  • L.A.'s heavily Latino Southeast cities: Paramount, Compton, South Gate
  • Other areas: Central Orange County; beach cities; Bay Area’s Contra Costa County; Castro Valley, Fremont, Hayward and environs

Attend South LA Town Hall Against SB 1120 and Other Bad Bills, Aug. 15, 11am!

Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8232649979?pwd=elhSTkZLbk1KYWZ2NEtnNzhkaHVSQT09

Or via phone: (669) 900-9128; Meeting ID: 823 264 9979 Passcode: 1221

AND please donate to Livable California. We’re grassroots against big money

 

Charts via Embarcadero Institute:

Sacramento Fail: Legislature Pushes Dense Luxury, NOT Affordable Housing, a June 27, 10 am, Teleconference for Community Leaders and City Officials

 

Please join us Sat. at 10 am with Gabrielle Layton, founder of Embarcadero Institute, the think tank that un-spins Sacramento. She'll discuss the legislature's collapse from supporting affordable housing 10 years ago, to this year openly pitting it against market-rate housing.

 

Please donate to Livable California now, click here, as we mobilize the public against bills that recreate SB 50 via piecemealing. Thank you!

 

Led by state Sen. Scott Wiener and Bay Area legislators, the bills seek to pave over urban & suburban, black & brown, beach & inland communities:

 

·      One bans single-family zoning, the key aim of SB 50.

·      Two bills cut affordable unit requirements in half OR WORSE.

·      A gentrification tool we killed is back: 10-unit luxury buildings.

·      One bill stealthily overrides height limits, a Wiener aim in SB 50.

 

Gab Layton will discuss the Institute’s terrifying charts including

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Livable California is a non-profit statewide group of community leaders, activists and local elected officials. We believe in local answers to the housing affordability crisis. Our robust fight requires trips to Sacramento & a lobbyist going toe-to-toe with power. Please donate generously to LivableCalifornia.org here.

 

 

 

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