A 72-year-old provision in the California Constitution requires local governments to get community approval before developing, buying or funding “low rent” housing — a law voters …
When voters in Oakland, Berkeley and South San Francisco receive ballots in the mail next month, they’ll be asked whether their cities should be allowed to help build more desperately needed affordable housing.
“There was a time, and it still exists today because of , where it was OK to just blatantly say we don’t want Black people in our neighborhoods – and that’s the legacy of Article 34,” said Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife, who introduced the city’s affordable housing measure. Opponents, including residents and taxpayers groups, say the measures will inevitably lead to misuse of public funds. The Alameda County Taxpayer Association described the Oakland measure as an effort “to make the voters believe that something good would actually result, rather than more waste and misuse.”
Wiener’s bill, overwhelmingly approved by lawmakers in August, will put a statewide measure on the 2024 ballot asking voters to eliminate the “completely racist provision.” Article 34 was approved shortly after the establishment of the federal Housing Act of 1949 banning racial segregation in public housing – a provision that set many White communities on edge.
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