by Dylan Casey | Mar 6, 2024 | Housing Accountability Act, Legal Action, News
California Housing Defense Fund Scores First Ever Legal Victory for California’s Builder’s Remedy
by CaRLA | Oct 5, 2021 | Housing Accountability Act, Legal Action, News
CaRLA is happy to announce another fresh victory in a string of significant rulings in favor of housing. If you haven’t been following the Huntington Beach saga, it is finally coming to an end, and the series finale has a surprising conclusion. We were very unhappy...
by CaRLA | Sep 13, 2021 | Housing Accountability Act, Legal Action, News
Oakland, CA — The California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund (CaRLA) is pleased to announce a precedent-setting victory in the fight for more housing and a more equitable California. In a much anticipated decision released Friday afternoon, the California...
by CaRLA | Aug 11, 2021 | Housing Accountability Act, Legal Action, News
We are simultaneously disappointed in and surprised by a trial judge’s ruling last week to deny 48 units of desperately needed and zoning-compliant housing in Huntington Beach on the grounds that the project is not protected by the Housing Accountability Act. This...
by CaRLA | Jan 14, 2020 | Housing Accountability Act
CaRLA has officially begun work on our appeal of the ruling we received in CaRLA v. San Mateo, because we believe the court is wrong: housing is a statewide issue that cannot be left solely in the hands of local governments.. As we’ve covered before, the trial court’s...
by CaRLA | Oct 22, 2019 | Housing Accountability Act
This Thursday is the court hearing for our case against the City of San Mateo, but what is at stake? Housing, of course, but we’re not just here to get housing built project-by-project. We’re here to restore a legal environment in which California builds...
