by Victoria Fierce | Jan 14, 2019 | Housing Accountability Act, Workshops
2019 promises to be an exciting year in housing law. New legislation, a new governor, and we can pretty much guarantee that cities will find new ways to violate state law. They do it every year. The good news is CaRLA is keeping on top of it so you don’t have...
by Victoria Fierce | Dec 6, 2018 | Housing Accountability Act, News
1310 Haskell St. One of our earlier cases was 1310 Haskell St, Berkeley, CA. Here, Cristian wanted to replace one single family mansion in a low-rise South Berkeley neighborhood with three working class homes, each selling for less than $800,000. The alternative was...
by Victoria Fierce | Nov 14, 2018 | Housing Accountability Act, News
Not all of our cases make it to litigation. In fact, many of them never make it through to an unlawful denial. In every case, we start out by submitting a stern letter reminding the city in question of their obligation to follow state law, and sometimes it works!...
by Victoria Fierce | Oct 8, 2018 | Housing Accountability Act
Earlier this year, CaRLA filed a lawsuit against the city of Dublin for an unlawful denial of 220 homes at Dublin BART. Today, we are excited to announce that we have secured a victory in our suit. The City of Dublin will be reconsidering their decision to ban renters...
by Victoria Fierce | Aug 8, 2018 | Housing Accountability Act
Earlier this year, the City of Los Angeles approved 14 units of housing to be constructed at 1650 Silver Lake Boulevard. A quirk of Los Angeles’ process is that any city councilor may submit a property to the Cultural Heritage Commission for historic...
by Victoria Fierce | Aug 3, 2018 | Housing Accountability Act
We get emails. We get a lot of emails. Lately, the emails we’ve been getting are about our lawsuit in Sonoma. A quick refresher: a homeowner wants to build three large homes in a district that only allows large homes, and the city unlawfully denied their...
