After making it through two legislative committees, SB 594 heads to the Senate Appropriations for crucial vote. Californian tenants and workers are another step closer to critical protections from abuses by large corporations that hide behind the current limited liability company (LLC) structure after lawmakers voted to pass SB…
The California Reinvestment Coalition and several of its member organizations met with elected officials and representatives from financial regulatory agencies last week as part of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s 2022 Just Economy Conference Advocacy Week. Each year, CRC convenes a California delegation to meet with DC-based regulators and…
CRC Research Analyst Jamie Buell on Wednesday presented at the Fair Housing Council of Riverside County’s 2022 Housing Conference: Housing Solutions Post Pandemic. The conference brought together policymakers, Realtors, nonprofits, financial lenders and government officials to tackle California’s pressing housing market issues, including using data-driven market analysis and current…
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, July 13 took up AB889, a CRC co-sponsored bill that would hold corporate landlords accountable for habitability issues and would also provide important data for creating housing policy by requiring disclosure of the actual owners of property rather than the name of…
CRC is co-hosting a workshop on Thursday, April 15 from 1 to 2 p.m. with the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) on SB 1079, a new law introduced last year by Sen. Nancy Skinner to reduce land grabs resulting from foreclosure auctions. SELC helped add a significant new section…
Join the fight to stop corporate landlord takeover in California by helping push AB 1199 to the finish line. AB 1199 will bring much-needed tax disincentive to billionaire corporate landlords who treat housing like any other investment and it will shine a light on the owners who hide behind…
As part of a series of transition team meetings, CRC and some of its members last month met with Michael Barr, who is likely to be nominated to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). If confirmed, Barr will succeed Brian Brooks, who has led the…
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