Thread by @loridroste

I’m happy to announce that @JesseArreguin @RashiKesarwani @TaplinTerry and I will be pursuing holistic and comprehensive zoning reform guidance in order to meet our state-mandated RHNA targets and address our housing crisis.

Stay tuned! 😁

This means addressing:

✅ the racial and economic disparities associated exclusionary zoning,

✅ increasing housing costs which price out a large part of our population

✅ climate change impacts due to urban sprawl

Make no mistake—

This is a social and climate justice issue which affects so many people, particularly younger generations.

I don’t want to live in a city where kids have no future.

And let me be clear, MANY people want to throw up roadblocks because they fear change.

We are 100% committed to an inclusive process before we have to adopt our Housing Element in 2022.

We want to hear your input but NOT doing anything is NOT an option.

And we won’t be bullied by bad faith actors who helped get us into this crisis in the first place.

There’s a reason why displacement experts, climate scientists, and virtually every single scholar studying housing affordability support our efforts.

Now is time we put our bodies upon the gears & fight for justice.

It is nothing short of that. We will not allow the ladder to be pulled up. We will not create arbitrary walls.

Join us.

Oh, and one more thing...by bringing up this conversation now, we are 1000% percent allowing for more community input. Anyone saying otherwise is wrong.

Every city has to adopt a Housing Element by late 2022. This is kicking off the conversation.