'UNITED NEIGHBORS'.. JOINING TOGETHER TO PRESERVE NEIGHBORHOODS..STATE BILLS
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Many CD4 neighborhoods have joined Sherman Oaks HOA, in CD4
State bills intent is to up-zone, wipe out single family zoning across the state.
Joining Together to Preserve Neighborhoods United Neighbors is a coalition of neighborhood residential groups throughout the Southern California region.
Our common goal is to protect single-family neighborhoods while supporting affordable and equitable housing for all.
The rights of all residents of single-family homes and the rights of people needing affordable housing are bound together, and the solution to our affordable housing crisis requires thoughtful, effective, and rapid-acting legislation.
United Neighbors looks forward to working with legislators who will implement valuable community input and ideas.
We encourage all state legislators to ignore the false narrative that single-family zoning is the cause of our affordable housing shortage and instead solve the real problem – the urgent need for effective funding strategies.
Together we will:
Preserve single-family neighborhoods
Protect open spaces and environment
Ensure local control so housing is built in appropriate areas with adequate infrastructure
Create housing in commercial areas,on transit routes,and on publicly owned land
Commit Government funding and state subsidies to produce affordable housing.
A handful of state legislators continue to craft housing bills that up-zone neighborhoods.
These would only benefit land speculators and builders by driving up land values, increasing housing costs, and creating more unneeded market-rate housing.
Current zoning, if properly used, can provide all needed housing.
United Neighbors encourages legislators to use our tax dollars to subsidize affordable housing because the old private-sector model has not provided and will not provide the necessary amount of affordable housing.
If our state legislators ask the right questions, they will find the right answers to our affordable housing crisis.
Join us to help them get it right!
For more information, contact Maria Kalban of the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association at mpkalban@gmail.com