One thing that nearly all Californians agree on is that the price of housing in this state is too high. The relentlessly rising prices are unmistakable evidence of a housing shortage: not enough homes are built to meet the rising demand. Husband and wife entrepreneurs Shelah and Jonathan Lehrer-Graiwer thought they could help meet that … ...
In July of this year, PLF petitioned the California Supreme Court to review a lower court opinion allowing the City of San Jose to essentially takeover 15% of all new homes as units for the city’s affordable housing program. In September, the Court granted review, and yesterday PLF filed the opening brief on behalf of … ...
Yesterday the California Supreme Court decided an important case in the field of exactions law, Sterling Park v. City of Palo Alto. The issue in the case was in a sense rather mundane: what is the deadline for filing suit to challenge an affordable housing set aside as a condition of a development permit? But … ...
This week, PLF filed a petition in the California Supreme Court on behalf of the California Building Industry Association. The petition asks the Court to review CBIA v. City of San Jose, a very ominous lower court decision that could begin a new flood of extortionate development fees imposed on property owners throughout California. CBIA … ...