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News of Venice, CA and Marina del Rey CA

SB50 Shelved Until 2020

Posted by :reta On : May 16, 2019
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Category: Preserve LA, SB50

By Preserve LA

Today (16 May), the Appropriations Committee killed SB 50. Together we did it! Killing the worst law proposed in 25 years, a land grab that would have put a ban on single-family housing, razed affordable housing, threatened historic neighborhoods, and attacked homeownership.

Sen. Portantino, chair of the Appropriations Committee, used his power to deep freeze this bill until 2020 when it will be up for debate again. For now we can take a breath before we gear up for another fight.

Scott Wiener has not gotten the message. He will waste another year of all of our time toying with ridiculous non-solutions to our affordable hosing crisis. We need to build actual affordable housing, not continue to provide giveaways to luxury housing developers allowing global capital to upend our neighborhoods.

It is time that Senators Scott Wiener and Mike McGuire and the co-authors of SB 50 realize that a bill which is nothing more than a land grab only caters to developers whose main objective is profit.

Assemblymember Burke Abandons SB 50 as Co-author

Posted by :reta On : April 23, 2019
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Category: SB50

By Preserve LA

State Assemblymember Autumn Burke has withdrawn her co-authorship of controversial Senate Bill 50 by Scott Wiener, which would allow tall luxury apartment buildings to overrun 3,000 neighborhoods in California, from working-class East Los Angeles to middle-class Santa Rosa.

Burke’s withdrawal, confirmed by her office, is a blow to Wiener, coming just a few days before the California senate Governance and Finance Committee votes on whether to back or reject Senate Bill 50.

Wiener, the radical San Francisco legislator who has called single-family homes immoral and blames yards for taking up space that should go to apartment towers, is pushing the unprecedented concept of tearing down thriving working-class and middle-class communities.