CaRLA News
You’re invited: CaRLA’s 2019 Fundraiser Party!
Its been one heckuva year, huh? This year CaRLA sued more cities, taught some workshops, and triplexized the entire State of California. Just small stuff, you know? To celebrate, please join us for our first ever end of the year fundraiser party! We'll be hosted by...
How to Make Your Home a Triplex
Do you own a single family home in California, but wish you could do more than just advocacy to help the housing shortage? Congratulations! You can soon turn your one home into three thanks to this year’s state legislation on Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs). Nearly...
SB50 would give us all a powerful tool against scofflaw cities. It must be passed.
As a 501c3 non-profit, we're limited in the political advocacy we can take on, especially when elected officials and proposed legislation are involved. This means we rarely come out swinging in favor of any particular piece of legislation unless it makes a compelling...
We’re escalating our fight to make housing a matter of statewide concern by defending it in the Court of Appeals
CaRLA has officially begun work on our appeal of the ruling we received in CaRLA v. San Mateo, because we believe the court is wrong: housing is a statewide issue that cannot be left solely in the hands of local governments.. As we’ve covered before, the trial court’s...
Huntington Beach Reconsiders Housing Denial After CaRLA Threatens Lawsuit
A few months back, Huntington Beach denied a proposed 48-unit housing development right near the beach on Ellis Avenue. The project is located within the special district that is the subject of the state's housing element lawsuit against the city. The project complies...
Appellate Court Supports the Power of the State over Local Control of Housing
Yesterday, the California 6th District Court of Appeals definitively concluded in Anderson v City of San Jose that housing is indeed a statewide concern worthy of statewide legislative intervention. The ruling supports the steps taken by the California legislature to...
San Mateo deals a temporary blow to housing statewide
Today we received our first--and so far, only--real loss in the courtroom. The good news is that we were correct in asserting that this case strikes at the heart of “local control” in California. The bad news is that the judge upheld the city’s decision to deny a...
December 15th: Save the Date for our fundraiser party!
Its been one heckuva year, huh? This year CaRLA sued more cities, taught some workshops, and triplexized the entire State of California. Just small stuff, you know? To celebrate, please join us for our first ever end of the year fundraiser party! We're still in the...
Keeping an eye on Piedmont’s ADU Gymnastics
State ADU law makes the requirements for cities’ permitting process fairly clear: ADU permits “shall be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or hearing” and local ordinances “shall provide an approval process that includes only ministerial provisions...
CaRLA is Growing, California Can Too
This week, CaRLA and Sonja Trauss agreed to part ways. Sonja played a central role in co-founding and establishing CaRLA as the leading pro-housing legal advocate in California. Her hard work and dedication helped build CaRLA into what it is today. CaRLA remains...
Whats at stake in CaRLA v San Mateo?
This Thursday is the court hearing for our case against the City of San Mateo, but what is at stake? Housing, of course, but we're not just here to get housing built project-by-project. We're here to restore a legal environment in which California builds housing equal...