CVP
Unbounded Bullying by HCD
The stated mission of the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is to, “Promote safe, affordable homes and vibrant, inclusive, sus... … more »
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CVP
Dominican Valley Residents are Steaming Mad for Good Reason
Deep in the heart of Dominican Valley sits a unique and spectacular piece of property: one of the last remaining, large parcels of wilderness land in the Black Can... … more »
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HCD
RHNA Quotas, Unfunded Mandates, Buffer Sites, and the CA State Constitution
As more people wake up to the fact that new housing laws have forever changed the way our communities will grow and reduced the say California residents have in th... … more »
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Marin County Superior Court
Strawberry resident challenges the approval of the Marin County 2023-2031 Housing Element
In April of 2023, attorneys for Strawberry resident Bruce Corcoran filed a Petition for Writ of Mandate and Complaint for Declaratory Relief against the County of ... … more »
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CVP
“You can’t push a river" - California's Housing Element process is a bust
A reporter left me a message the other day, wanting to get my opinion of the Housing Element process. From his voicemail, I could tell he was out to write a sto... … more »
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The Organic Chemistry Tutor
The Real Affordability Crisis
“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” ~ Joseph Goebbels. Last week, I wrote about the dismal track record of California’s state housing laws... … more »
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Keith Miner
Moving the goal posts to conceal housing policy failures
Every article we read these days about affordable housing legislation presents formulas about what percentage of new units need to conform to various percentages o... … more »
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Legal Match
Is "spot zoning" illegal?
The term “spot zoning” is thrown around a lot in discussions about planning and development and the vast majority of the time the term is misused and misundersto... … more »
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State of California
Housing, the Homeless, and the Clueless
“For every complex human problem, there is a solution that is neat, plausible, and wrong.” ~ H.L. Mencken In a recent “Weekly Update,” California Attor... … more »
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US District Court
Huntington Beach v. Newsom, RHNA, HCD, and state housing law
The City of Huntington Beach (the “CITY”) in Southern California has been in the news recently in its battle to push back on state housing laws, the Department of ... … more »