United Neighbors

A California Coalition to Protect Neighborhoods United Neighbors is a coalition of neighborhood residential groups throughout California. Their common goal is to protect multi-family and single-family neighborhoods while supporting affordable and equitable housing for all.
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United Neighbors -79 update2

3/19/2025 Hi All, We hope all of you have had time to send in your letters opposing SB 79.  We tried to make this as easy a process as possible.  We honestly don’t stand a chance if you don’t send out a lot of letters and if you don’t get…

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United Neighbors -Amended SP 79 update

3/6/2025 Hi All, An amended SB 79 has just been released and literally it will open up most single family neighborhoods throughout the State to more density and height with no public input.  When this state bill talks about more density within 1/4 mile and 1/2 mile radius from transit (including…

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United Neighbors vs. State Bills

3/1/2025 Hi All, Together we were credited for saving neighborhoods in LA’s Housing Element.  But we saved them not because we didn’t want to open up our neighborhoods for more density but because there was no reason to destroy existing neighborhoods citywide when we have so much available space to…

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YIMBY Lawsuit Update

United Neighbors- information 2/19/2025 Hi All, As we prepare to face new challenges this year, we wanted to send links to some articles you might not have seen.  One is an article that explains the lawsuit recently filed by YIMBY law and Californians for Homeownership ( funded by California Association of Realtors) against the City…

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SB 79 on Watchlist

Currently, we are watching SB 79 introduced two weeks ago by Scott Wiener. The language of this bill is very ambiguous but suggests an attempt to rezone residential neighborhoods near transit corridors. Similar to the “options” that we fought during the Housing Element process

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