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Susan Kirsch For Supervisor
SB 827 OPPOSITION & Sen. Scott Wiener’s Refusal to Meet with South L.A. Black Community
The following letter has been sent to Senator Toni Atkins, Senator Jim Beall and Senator Scott Wiener by the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance. The BCCLA is a broad coalition of major community organizations and agencies against Senate Bill 827.
The BCCLA calls out Senator Wiener and SB 827, saying,
"Senator Wiener and advocates for SB 827 have sought to conveniently narrow the discussion of housing discrimination on the history of zoning, specifically for single family homes. This tactic completely ignores that Black, Brown, Asian and low-income communities use zoning laws to resist gentrification, displacement, environmental racism and economic exploitation.
"This tactic completely ignores the primary role played by powerful financial interests of creating and profiting from our housing affordability crisis. These are the very forces and special interests that unsurprisingly support SB 827, and call for draconian changes in zoning laws, like the bill, and the weakening of environmental protections, like CEQA."
To read their entire letter of protest, CLICK HERE