by Sonja Trauss | May 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Alhambra City Attorney gives a presentation to the Alhambra City Council on the current and potentially future state housing laws. “I’m just the messenger,” he says, “these laws weren’t my ideas.”...
by ben | May 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
In 2017 Michael Goolsby, an attorney specializing in preying upon victims of foreclosure, faced a career crisis. He had just been disbarred by the California Bar Association after repeatedly violating rules against practicing law unlicensed in other states. With his...
by ben | May 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Vallco Mall project in Cupertino, also called Vallco City Center, has become a flashpoint for pro-housing and anti-housing sentiment on the peninsula. The question over wether an empty mall will be allowed to become housing has inflamed tensions in Cupertino and...
by Sonja Trauss | May 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
… The YIMBY Era! The League of Cities is holding a conference for City Attorneys May 8-10th. One of the sessions is called “Navigating Housing Development in the New Era,” and the “New Era” is the era of YIMBYism.Navigating Housing...
by Sonja Trauss | May 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
MAY 8th, 1:30 pm, 375 Beale St.: The MTC Policy Subcomittee is considering the state wide streamlining/ pro-housing bills. Here is the agenda. Here is an 11 page summary of many of the housing bills before the state this year. MAY 10th, 9:15 am, 375 Beale St.: The...
by Sonja Trauss | May 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Fair Housing Act turned 50 last year, and the community of housing scholars and activists continue to reflect on the progress not made since segregation because officially illegal. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development recently held a symposium on the...
