Your INCREDIBLE calls and emails forced senate boss Toni Atkins to delay the Assembly's vote on SB 1120 all week! Her final try is Sunday Aug. 30!

 

SB 1120 is Agenda Item No. 145 on Sunday. We estimate it will be heard after 2 pm. 

 

Please DO THIS, RIGHT NOW and TOMORROW:

 

  • Call your assembly member, whatever the time! Leave a message citing the fatal flaws of SB 1120. FIND your Assembly Member here. If you know your next-over Assembly member, call them too! Use their Sacramento office numbers! (Talking points below.)

 

If the Assembly votes AYE, then this sweeping experiment to fill a "hole" in market-rate housing that does not exist heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

 

We have a BIG job with the governor. Does he believe the discredited "trickle down" luxury housing theory? Does he think remote work is a fad? Does anyone in Sacramento find it ironic that Pinterest, the billionaires of homebodies, no longer wants a Bay Area home?

 

CLICK HERE to send a quick letter to the LATINO ASSEMBLY CAUCUS, opposing SB 1120 and its OUTSIZED impact on Latino families and neighborhoods.

 

If we lose: California's becomes the first state in U.S. history to deliver 7.4M single-family homes, housing 21M people, over to luxury density developers — crushing neighborhoods during a pandemic economic crisis. 

 

If we win: The obsessed Bay Area state Sen. Scott Wiener will be back, sucking the air out of the room and trying to prevent, for the fourth year, an honest discussion of the state's defunding of affordable housing — and how it rectifies that. For shame, Sen. Wiener.

 

Behind it all: Wiener, swimming in more developer money than any legislator on the West Coast, and Atkins, married to a developer.

 

Now, get on your cell to call your Assembly member! Tomorrow, share our FB updates! And donate to Livable California TODAY! We thank you.

 

Talking Points for Your Calls Tonight and Sunday Morning Against SB 1120:

  • Legislators must not seem to be rushing dramatic societal change under cover of COVID-19.
  • Threatens historic Black and Latino homeowner communities with devastation by developers.
  • McKinsey claim that California needs 3.5M housing units by 2025 was debunked, and Gov. Newsom has walked away from the false figure. The need is 1.2M reached without upheaval. 
  • Our need is low-income units. Market rate units far exceed the demand in California. Enough!
  • Legislators must not cheer a luxury developer bill during this crisis for low-income families.
  • Working-class homeowners earned their path to middle-class. SB 1120 upends this victory.

 

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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