Sausalito is toying with the idea of becoming a charter city.
The city is currently a general law city, which requires it to follow the governance rules set by California Constitution and the California Legislature. Charter cities give greater local control and flexibility to cities, and potentially open up revenue sources.
The City Council discussed the possibility and created a subcommittee for the topic at its July 16 meeting.
Days after a Solano County report slammed a plan backed by Silicon Valley billionaires to build a utopian new city from scratch near Fairfield, the company behind the “California Forever” project has scrapped the ballot initiative it was to put to county voters in November.
California is the most expensive state in the U.S. for renters, according to a new report, which details how finding an affordable rental home remains out of reach for many low-income workers in the state.
In fact, a minimum wage employee would need to work nearly three full-time jobs just to afford a modest, two-bedroom home in California.
The Board of Supes continued a vote on a statewide rent-control measure Tuesday because Sup. Ahsha Safai, a likely supporter, left the meeting early. It will be back July 2.
In the meantime, it’s worth looking at how the big landlord lobby is organizing against the measure—and trying to stop its sponsor from funding future pro-tenant legislation.
It’s a trail of big money and front groups.
The Big Real Estate lobby, with the support of California Yimby, is going to great lengths to defeat a measure that would allow effective rent control in California—including a lobbying campaign to stop the SF Board of Supes from endorsing the measure.
At the center of the local effort is Sup. Catherine Stefani, who this week tried to block a normally routine effort by the supes to endorse the state bill.
For many years, one of the most important political debates in San Francisco and other tenant-heavy cities involved expanding rent controls to vacant apartments. The idea is pretty clear: If you let landlords raise the rent to market rates when a tenant moves out, then those landlords have every incentive to find a way to get rid of long-term renters. Many of the evictions, legal and dubious, that have plagued this city have their roots in that problem.
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